{"id":4645,"date":"2013-06-09T09:23:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T09:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/?p=4645"},"modified":"2013-06-09T09:23:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T09:23:30","slug":"mri-june-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/?p=4645","title":{"rendered":"MRI June 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130609-103918.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130609-103918.jpg\" alt=\"20130609-103918.jpg\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right:20px;\" \/><\/a>I knew that this MRI was going to be critical as the last scan showed a 15% growth across the board. This was without treatment. If the first round of German therapies worked, I should hopefully see a reduction in the tumour volume, or at least no growth.<\/p>\n<p>However, It seems like luck is just not with me. Despite all the pain and effort of the preceding month, the MRI shows another 15% increase. (To get an idea what this means to my liver, look at the illustration image in the top left corner and imagine all the mets roughly 35% larger.)<\/p>\n<p>But there is still a ray of hope. Firstly my CEA dropped from 3300 to 972, however because the test was done in another country (Czech Republic) and a different lab, its too early to get excited till I get some clarification. The test says >972 which could mean bigger than 972 but less than 973, or it could just mean bigger than 972, in which case it could mean anything. I will find out next week and will also get another CEA test done in Germany just to be sure. <\/p>\n<p>Secondly, physically I feel better not worse. This is hard to reconcile with the significant growth shown on the scan.<\/p>\n<p>I am hoping that there has been a great deal of tumour necrosis and that the increase in volume is due to inflammation resulting from healing. Next month&#8217;s MRI should tell more.<\/p>\n<p>I am really dreading the next MRI as I can&#8217;t sustain 15% monthly growth for much longer. I am going to ramp up the therapies this month and throw more things at my little mutants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew that this MRI was going to be critical as the last scan showed a 15% growth across the board. This was without treatment. If the first round of German therapies worked, I should hopefully see a reduction in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/?p=4645\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}