Copper cannot continue CCNU

October 23, 2007
Last Friday (October 19th) it was confirmed that the lymphoma was back and as I wrote about in my previous post, the oncologists believe that the lymphoma is behind Copper's left eye. They found one of his lymph-nodes in his neck enlarged. Because of his low blood platelets, the oncologists took a sample of his bone marrow. Their goal was to see if he had enough blood platelets left to continue with the CCNU. The results came back and it was decided that he could not continue with that treatment. This has limited the options we have. The oncologist did try one drug that has worked in the past L-spar, but told me that if this drug does not work, the only option left was to keep him on prednisone and allow the cancer to run its course. We have another vet appointment October 25th to see how he is doing, and to discuss options.