My oncologist at the University of Michigan, Dr. Lao, read and reported Thursday on the scans done the previous week. My brain MRI showed the two tumors that had been shrunk in December through SRS were stable, with one of them smaller, though the other did show some hematoma. The PET scan was clear exepct for a suspected met in the left buttock. Recommendation was to watch and wait to see if this very small supposed tumor grows with scans taken again in 7 weeks. Dr.
My oncologist at the University of Michigan, Dr. Lao, read and reported Thursday on the scans done the previous week. My brain MRI showed the two tumors that had been shrunk in December through SRS were stable, with one of them smaller, though the other did show some hematoma. The PET scan was clear exepct for a suspected met in the left buttock. Recommendation was to watch and wait to see if this very small supposed tumor grows with scans taken again in 7 weeks. Dr. Paul Chapman at Sloane, whom i have been seeing for second opinions and saw again this morning, agrees but has more doubts that what is showing up on the scan in my butt is actually a met. He recommends if it grows to SRS it. It's very nice to think I have seven weeks to live and not be treated, just having finished my ipi infusions four weeks ago. Side effects from that, fatigue, rash, and itching, have quieted down but are still with me every other day or so. Never quite sure what is going to pop up when. But Dr. Lao ranks me among his "best" 5% patients on ipi. He means manageable, I think. No way you know the results yet. Just know things have been quiet.
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