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Very Bad MRI
Friday 15 October 2010
We received the MRI results today. The results are very bad and indicate rapid growth of the cancer.
Dr Chadha, our oncologist, has recommended surgical removal as soon as possible, which will be on Thursday, 28 October, with the same surgeon, Kit Fox, at the same hospital, St David’s Central (32d Street at Red River) as the two previous surgeries.
On the bright side, Dr Fox said that he expects this surgery to be much simpler than the previous surgeries and does not expect the new surgery to impair any mental functions.
On the dark side, we are out of standard medical (chemotherapy) and radiation treatment options. Dr Chadha will spend the next few weeks looking for an experimental (Phase III) study that might accept Michele for treatment. The most promising GBM Phase III trials tend to cherry pick patients who the researchers think will have the greatest chance of success and survivability. With the treatments and surgeries she has been through the past 20 months, finding a promising study may be difficult.
One good result is that Michele will be off the very harsh Carboplatin chemotherapy, which she has been on for the past three months. We hope that, without the Carboplatin treatments, Michele will regain some the mental capacity recently lost.
RKS
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