Robbie's Cancer
Robbie was diagnosed with Metastatic Angiosarcoma in December 2004. He was taken into hospital after a short two week period of abdominal pain.
Initial radiology and biopsy revealed metastatic angiosarcoma with multiple liver lesions and lesions in his vertebral column and pelvic bones. The disease was extremely active with high fever and platelet consumption. It progressed rapidly with marked abdominal distension which compressed his lungs and made breathing difficult. Robbie was treated with intensive chemotherapy and the disease slowly responded with a reduction in the size of his liver.and in the number of liver lesions . However the liver lesions never completely resolved and there were always multiple liver lesions with persistent bony abnormalities of his vertebral column and pelvic bones.
There was no effective local treatment option. A number of alternative chemotherapy schedules were tried but subsequent scans showed continued disease progression. Towards the end Robbie required morphine and daily blood product replacement. He lost the fight on March 15th 2006.
