We received some good news on Wednesday regarding all the tests Adam underwent on Monday. It looks as though the chemo is doing what it needs to do to get Adam back to being 100% cancer free. On the majority the doctor has said that the tumors and the masses have shrunk in size from 45-55%. This is outstanding news, and we are all excited to know that all this work is accomplishing the goal.
However, today we received another call from his doctor and he stated that after looking at all the tests and the effect that the chemo has had on the cancer Adam is still going to have to undergo radiation. He said even though the disease has shrunk considerably, it has not shrunk enough for Adam to be considered a fast responder. So the chemo will continue with a couple new drugs, and then in about 3-4 months he will undergo radiation. The good news is also that no one has said anything about surgery as they had discussed before, so this is great news.
The pesky mass in and around the neck and clavicle area are the ones that have not responded as quickly as they have hoped, so even though the news is good, we need to continue to battle this as aggressively as possible. The doctors have indicated that our goal is to eradicate this disease completely and to do that we need to fight it as hard and as aggressive as possible.
So as Adam looks ahead he can be excited that what he and the doctors are doing is working. We just need to continue to work hard and fight with all we have. So to say we have good news and bad news is not really the case, because we knew going into this that radiation was probably inevitable. We do say though that this is definitely good news and as long as we see these tumors decreasing it is good news!
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