Hello,
My husband was diagnosed on June 14th with GIST. He was severely anemic due to the primary tumor in his stomach bleeding. The primary tumor was removed with about 1/2 of his stomach on June 22. He has many dozens of tumors in his liver. The surgeon decided to biospy the liver (a second time) during stomach cancer. The liver continued to bleed and a third hospitalization was necessary to get the resulting anemia under control and drain his abdomen. It has been a horrible month for us. He is 40. He is unable to start the Gleevec until the bleeding has been well controlled for 3 weeks. I am so worried about him despite the good news reported regarding Gleevec. The oncologist has not been very straight-forward with him, and he doesn't want to know what will happen next, Gleevec side effects, his prognosis etc. I WANT TO KNOW. I spend every available minute researching. I would love to connect with others who have this type of cancer. I have many questions. The gistsupport website is full of great information. Please post if you or a loved one has this cancer.
Thanks for listening.
Tammy