Treatments To Begin Soon...

What a busy week this has been! On Monday, we met with Dr. Joseph Koenig, Daves oncologist for his chemotherapy.

We had met with Dr. Savvides of UH Ireland Cancer Ctr. on July 15Th to determine if we were able to do treatments closer to home. This was a yes and Dr. Savvides contacted Dr. Koenig to discuss Daves treatments, he will be following Daves progress closely.

Dave, Dr. Koenig and I discussed his course of treatments for this round of chemo. Dave will be getting a port placed on Monday, the 26Th, this is an outpatient surgical procedure. He will be receiving the following chemotherapy drugs, Carboplatin and Taxol every 21 days, (the carboplatin is a cousin of the cisplatin medication that Dave received last year). He will also be getting Erbitux on a weekly basis. This medication is a targeted therapy drug, and is classified a "monoclonal antibody" and "signal transduction inhibitor" by binding to epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFR). It is used to treat metastatic cancer that over-expresses the EGFR.

All three of these medications are to be given by (IV) at the infusion center at the Cooper cancer center in Akron. All of the treatments are to start on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010.

Our next visit was a scheduled visit with the radiation oncologist for followup. We were released to an as needed basis with him.

Would like to send special thanks to my mom for sending us a new pool liner for our pool, and to Dave for helping get it finished. It has been set up and is now swim ready, the kids and I had a great time swimming for the first time in one and a half years. The pool had been taken down for maintenance in 2008, just before we found out Dave had stage 4 laryngeal cancer. Thank you mom, we love you.

Thank you for your prayers of strength, healing, and patience on this new path. We love you and God Bless.