This is Rachel's 7th of 8 treatments.... met with her oncologist before her treatment. What we/she determined is that she will not have any more of the drug that can affect her lungs. That will not be given to her anymore.... a relief for all! Rachel has also decided that she wants to have the radiation treatments for Phase 2 instead of additional chemo treatments.
So here is the plan... Rachel gets a new PET Scan on Wed December 9th... this is the "glow" test to show any cancerous areas in your body. We are assuming there will be no glowing in the neck area, but we are unsure about the heart area, where the 2nd lymph node is... If there is no glow.... we will assume that she had Stage 2 Hodgkins and that it is gone from the chemo. If there is a glow in that area, we will still not know if it is Hodgkins... since the lymph node is next to the Thymus gland. What we don't know is if she still has her Thymus gland...since they go away as persons reach adulthood. If it glows... we can: 1) radiate the area without a biopsy 2) biopsy the area, which is fairly major surgery...
We'll just wait for the test results before we decide what to do...
Rach had her treatment afterwards... did well for the rest of the week.....
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