From Darby: Earlier this week, Clayton had treatment on Monday and we got the news that his CEA number actually jumped higher than it has since we have started this round of chemo. It went from 4.7 two weeks ago, to 5.4 this week. Not a massive jump in the scheme of things, but it was a higher trend than we have seen this round. Needless to say, it made us pretty uneasy about whether or not this chemo was losing its effectiveness. His CEA number has slowly been trending up ov

From Darby: Clayton has his second treatment today, and we also were able to meet with Dr. Shalaby before to go over his bloodwork. The...

From Darby: Last weekend (August 16th), the weekend after Clayton finished his 5 days of radiation on his L4-L5 lesion, he started having...

We spoke with the clinicians in charge of the 2 trials that Dr. Patnaik is giving us the option to choose from, and read over the consent...

From Darby: Hi there!! Just wanted to give a quick update because we’ve been getting questions recently - we Just finished the call about...

From Darby: We have had several things happen over the last few weeks since the last update. Clayton had to have his third port taken out...

Clayton was scheduled to have another round of treatment today (his 3rd with the new protocol) but things didn’t go as planned today....

From Darby: Clayton went in for his second treatment this week. Because of spring break and weird schedule conflicts, he did his labs and...

Update! It has been a few weeks since we sent out an update and thought we were starting treatment. Needless to say, that did not happen...

Update: We went today to start Clayton’s new chemo treatments and weren’t sure he would be able to do them because he started feeling bad...

Update from Darby: If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it 1000 times, cancer is a roller coaster. We got to Clayton’s appointment today with...

Update on Clayton from today: Clayton saw Dr. Shalaby this afternoon to get a game plan for his upcoming treatments moving forward. His...

From Darby: We just finished meeting with Clayton’s surgeon, Dr. Baucom, to get her opinion on the scans and see what the options were...

From Darby: It’s been a long day. Our first appointment was at 9am for an MRI, then blood draw at 12:40, CT Scan at 2pm and finally an...

From Darby: It has been a minute since our last update, mostly because there has been no news...which is great! Clayton has still been...

From Darby: Monday, October 7th, Clayton went in for a new set of CT scans. This is the first set of scans we have done since his big PET...

From Darby: TODAY at 3pm Clayton will have his first PET scan. So far, we’ve only done a scan of his torso. This will be a FULL picture...

From Darby: Treatment #7 update: Today was supposed to be Clayton’s 7th round of treatment, and although he will no longer be receiving...

From Darby: Treatment 6 update: Clayton had his 6th round of chemo from his original protocol today. This will be the last round with the...