First Visit to St James Hospital Leeds

After my visit to Mr Platt a Mr Grimer rang my father and explained i would not have to go to Birmingham until my surgery. The plan was to have 9 months of chemotherapy and surgery. I was booked into a clinic to see Mr Ian Lewis at St james hospital this was on 29th May 2009. When i met Mr Lewis he came across as a very nice consultant and he explained what Ewings sarcoma was and told me it was his specialist field. He informed me they could not stage my cancer at this point and i would require a CT Scan (to check for cancer in my lungs), bone scan (to check if there was spread to the bones) and a bone marrow extraction (to check spread to bone marrow). The results of these tests would confirm the stage of my cancer. Mr Lewis however told me that with nearly all cases of Ewings Sarcoma microscopic spread usually has occured this type of spread is treatable as the chemotherapy kills off the cells befoe they can seed. The treatment procedure would be 6 cycles of chemotherapy and then surgery then another 8 cycles of chemotherapy. My next post will tell you about my first meeting with my surgeon Mr Grimer