No 3rd round of chemo - yaayyyyy!

After we saw the doctor today, he is recommending a new drug, Erbitux, to replace the Cisplatin that caused the damage to Troy's hearing. This will go alongside the radiation once per week (the radiation will be for the entire week). He will take the medicine and then head next door to the radiation center and begin a daily dose of radiation as his treatment. He goes to see the radiation oncologist tomorrow afternoon for a consultation and Dr. Goldsweig has set up another PET scan for Troy which he will be receiving on Friday morning at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital. We meet with Dr. Goldsweig on the 13th and from there we expect to hear how many weeks of radiation therapy Troy will receive. It may or may not be the 7 weeks that we expected. I'm sure the results from the PET scan will dictate this along with the doctors' expertise. I'm hoping we have some sort of "end" date soon! We can only tell you that we are getting closer to the end of this part of cancer treatment. We'll keep you posted.