Cocktails...

This is Bill. It’s past 1:00 AM EDT and I’m sitting here wading through a slight backlog of students’ labs and discussion group grading with Lady Gaga, CCR, Deee-Lite, Dual Core, and Howlin’ Wolf blaring in my QC-3s. Tracy called it a night several hours ago in anticipation of a long week coming up. Tomorrow (today) and Wednesday are her first days back to her office - post-op, and Thursday is the delayed-no-longer beginning to our six-month-long E-Ticket ride, otherwise known as a dose dense adjuvant chemotherapy regimen with AC-T + Avastin - and for good measure some radiation..

A chemo-cocktail refresher for those of you who have not been taking complete notes - the “A” is Adriamycin (doxorubicin), “C” is Cytoxan (cyclophosphamide), and the “T” is for Taxol, (aka: paclitaxel). Avastin, is of course, obviously bevacizumab. (say that three times in a row – fast) It is a humanized monoclonal antibody – and – no – you do not want to know why it’s called “humanized”. Trust me on this, and all I will say that it does not entail the use of 7-foot long pods from the greenhouse.

This isn’t your mother’s cocktail, for sure...

Bill