This is, as someone else said, an insidious disease that we are dealing with!

There definitely has been an reduction in Elaine's pain level since we started treatment at Genesis. However the pain, which had gone down dramatically immediately after the radiation, treatment has increased over the last couple of weeks, which is not good. There are a couple of factors to be considered, firstly the large quantities of medication which would help to reduce the pain and which we eased up a little over the last 10 days. Secondly the side effect of lots of pain medication is constipation, which of course is then countered with more pills, which could in this case exacerbate the pain in the groin (which is the main tumour). So this is all very confusing but we will learn more tomorrow when we go to get the results of the scans that Elaine had last Wednesday.