my first blog, a way for me to process my experience of being diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma
I am a professor at a Canadian university. I’m married, have close relationships with my family, love my 2 dogs, love travel, and enjoy hiking (but day hikes only – not really into the hut-to-hut thing). I really hope I can get through this and do some major hikes again in the future. Thank god I also love reading novels (literary prize winners, but also espionage, detective, and sometimes Sci-fi). And thank god I live in an era of excellent tv. And thank god I love writing. There are many things I can still do that I love, even having cancer and being more home-bound than I would like to be.
If you’re new, I recommend starting with How I Found Out.
So, I received the report about CT scan #4, which was done on March 29, and I think the take-home message is that the tumour size is stable and has not significantly changed since the previous scan, which was done Feb. 22. (In fact we didn’t even really need to do scan #4, but did…
Apologies for the long silence. Not too much has been happening on the health/health care front. I have continued receiving immunotherapy (durvalumab) once/month at the beginning of the month (Jan – March), but, if all goes according to plan, on April 7 I will start receiving Zeno every 2 weeks. The three people I’ve been…
I’ll keep this short – the most recent scan (Feb. 22, 2026) shows more tumor shrinkage. In August 2025, the tumor was 10.4 cm x 8 cm, in early November it was 9.7 cm x 7 cm, and now it is 7.8 cm x 5.2 cm. After the second scan on Nov. 3, and looking…
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