Feb 2004

From Mt Alvernia hospital. We rushed straight to National Cancer Centre (NCC). It's been awhile since we went back... We first met up with our Radio-oncologist who after numerous scans and blood tests transferred Jo over to Dr Leong Swan Swan. We truly thank God that Dr Leong is really such a wonderful and nice lady. She's helped us in so many ways.

The Verdict: NPC Stage 4 with Liver Metastasis (aka as Cancer has spread to the liver)

The Cocktail:
Triplet Combination of Gemcitabine, Paclitaxel and Carboplatin followed by maintenance 5-Flurouracil and folinic acid in Patients with Metastatic Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma.

In short, this was the first of chemo drugs Jo had to be administered with. The above is simply put - a triple packed power combo drug to whack the crap out of the cancer cells...and whack it did!