MRI Update

Tough day at the office!

The latest MRI showed a slight thickening along the bottom of the tumour.  Our head oncologist, Dr. Easaw, is consulting with our surgeon, Dr. Mehta, about whether another surgery should be scheduled. He said 98% of the tumour is stable and that the thickening could be new growth, accumulation of dead cancer cells, or related to the Mexico treatment.  It’s just very unfortunate that there's no way to know without surgery.

While this was not the news that we wanted yesterday morning, the imprecise nature of the MRI makes any definitive answer/interpretation somewhat gray in nature.  Unfortunately surgery is the only way to know for sure. Our last surgery brought positive news but we would certainly love to avoid another surgery. Option B would be a switch in chemo.  Please pray for clarity for the doctors as they review the MRI with each other and pray that the treatment option they recommend is a change in chemo. Although, even that is fraught with uncertainty.  Before the last surgery, the oncologist thought we should change up the chemo because “it wasn’t working”. But after surgery they realized that half of what was removed was dead cancer cells. So the oncologist decided that the chemo was working and we should stay the course.  Without a third surgery, how are we to know what is working and isn’t? Too much uncertainty! Too exhausting! Please pray for us as we will now be needing to make challenging treatment decisions.