Ding Ding round 3 is under way ...

The gloves are well and truly off in this bare knuckle fight between Ivor Cancer and Dene Marsh. Cancer continues its attack via the blood, but Dene is fighting back hard with clever assistance from Dr Money-Kyrle in his corner, and once again, Cancer marker is reduced, this time by 20%. Cancer's bulk continues to be eroded, and Dene gets extra assistance from drugs to manage his tiredness, good job this is not an Olympic sport, or there would be many positive tests! As usual, each round lasts 3 weeks, so there is lots of time left yet. With that we go back to the studio for more background news

As you can see from this report, once again, it was pretty much all good news yesterday, in fact we are very happy with progress, and now have some ideas on treatments post chemo, depending on my final results. At no stage was anything negative discussed, which bearing in mind the consultant always has to temper his replies, we are taking as good news. We discussed future holidays, going back to work, and my going back to scuba diving. Some follow up treatments may stop this, but he will bear it in mind. As he dives himself, he knows something about the implications. The biggest change this month is a significant increase in my steroids to manage my tiredness period straight after chemo better, so I may well be more awake, we will see.