Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Brody's CT scan results so far

Brody had a CT scan on Tuesday evening.  The purpose of this scan was to see if the tumor has strunk to a size small enough to operate on.  Brody's oncologist called to let us know that the tumor is indeed much smaller than the last scan and that the surgeon will be reviewing.  However, the surgeon is in surgery all day today so the oncologist and surgeon will not be able to review and discuss it together til tomorrow.  The oncologist plans to call us tomorrow to let us know the next steps.  Surgery, then more chemo and radiation, or no surgery and start radiation with continuing chemo or continue more chemo and wait to do surgery and radiation after further shrinking of tumor.  The size of the tumor is now 4cmX3.3cmX4.5cm.  At the scan prior to this one it was 4.9X5.2X7.  And the one before that it was 7X5.3X9.  So anyhow, it' s definitely smaller but we don't know yet if it is small enough to be surgically removed.

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  1. That's great news, hoping for the best. Thinking of you all every day.

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