I currently have 5 in my spine (including one wrapped around the nerves in the sacrum area) plus 5 more in my brain, where the
cancer spread after several years. For over two years now, I've been taking an oral chemotherapy drug called VP-16 (etoposide) on a daily two-weeks-on, two-weeks-off schedule. This has controlled the growth of my tumors during that time, although the sacrum tumor required radiation in January of this year.