We finally heard back from Dr. Liau last night. She said that the brain tumor board (that always seems weird to say) reviewed my scan yesterday, and although they agree there has been some growth of the tumor, it's nothing major. They agree with our decision to proceed with chemotherapy and get another scan in [...]
We received the finalized MRI results and the tumor has shown some mild growth. Devestated? No. Disappointed? Yes. We haven't been nearly as aggressive in the DMSO therapy since my last scan and in fact hardly did it in late November and December because of the holidays. It probably wasn't the best decision, but it's [...]
I got an email from my doctor at UCLA today.....finally, and they think that the tumor is stable from the MRI in April. Yippee!!! They didn't say that the tumor had grown at all, so we couldn't be happier with that news. Dr. Liau told me that the board recommends continuing on the chemotherapy regimen [...]
Wow, we packed in a lot today. Our day began with an MRI, which was much shorter than I anticipated, much to my delight. Last time I had an MRI done here, it seemed like at least 45 minutes, but this one was only 20 minutes. Yay! After that, we killed some time walking [...]