One thing and another...
A month since my last update and in some ways quite a lot has happened, but in other ways not much has progressed. In case you don't want to read the rest, here's the TLDR* version: after a lot of faffing around, I should finally start a new lot of chemotherapy the week after next. And here's the blow-by-blow account... I last saw the oncologist when we got back from Yorkshire in September and we discussed whether I should have the standard 'second-line' chemotherapy, or the possibility of being part of a clinical trial at the Royal Marsden in London. The trial is looking at a drug which has been successful in a particular type of breast cancer known as 'HER2 positive'. They were looking for patients with other types of cancer which were also HER2 positive. Initially I didn't think much about this because only around 1 in a hundred pancreatic cancers are HER2 positive. But when they tested my original biopsy from last year it looked like I might be su...