Good news!

So on tuesday we went back to hospital to se the registrar to talk about how surgery went. It went well :) Though he couldn't answer more specific questions, he had the report and told us basically what it said.

What it said was that they got pretty much everything that was visible. After they take it out they slice it up and look at it through their microscopes to work out how much is a alive or dead or calcified etc. The bit they looked at showed LESS THAN 5% ACTIVE OR LIVING OR WHATEVER TUMOUR. Exciting. However when we looked at the report ourselves it said something about the "first section they looked at" or something showing much higher percent. But it was unclear if that was the first bit from this surgery, or from the initial biopsy or what. We'll have to wait until I see my oncologist next week for a better explanation.

It looks like I will have radiotherapy on my chest as well as bone metastases now, since the tumour was in between the plura there may well be microscopic cells in the chest wall muscle there which were left behind after surgery which need special attention.

So another exciting thing to take from this is that, if the primary site has responded so well, the other sites will have responded well too- perhaps not as well, I would think that soft tissue sites would have greater exposure to blood and therefore chemo and such, so it may not be the same. However, its really good to know that it has been responding so well, considering I'm less than half way through chemo and radiotherapy is yet to be brought into the treatment picture anyway. Even if the chemo becomes less effective in the future, mum and I feel that is a little less of a worry now, considering how much its responded already anyway.

So all these things are good. Feeling quite relieved about all that.