I suffered a major setback in my treatments during my most recent round (last week). According to several tests and scans, such as a nuclear medicine scan called a Gallium scan, the cancer shows a recurrence in my bones, meaning that there is now a strain resistant to my current treatment plan. That means that my treatment plan doesn't work anymore, and I will need to consult with my oncologist and several other doctors at Sloan-Kettering (and anywhere else) to determine an alternative approach. I will probably require a bone marrow transplant--details to follow when I know more. While this is bad news, there are still options and other kinds of chemo that could do the trick. This is surprising to me after all of the success up to this point, but considering the size of my tumor when treatment started, it's actually not all that unusual to have difficulty wiping out all of the cancer cells. So, for now we're back to an uncertain place, but it will make for a more interesting made-for-tv movie when all is said and done.