A Small Bump In Our Journey. Dad Update 4/20/2016
MRI days are always difficult, and today's MRI results left us with lots of questions, a heavy heart, and a request for prayer in Dad's cancer battle. Our MRI results today weren't great, but they weren't terrible. Let me attempt to explain the news we received. Dad's MRI showed increased enhancement where the tumor was removed. Which means there is blood flow to this area- and in the cancer world, blood flow is a source of growth for a tumor, and growth is the last thing we want. The amount of enhancement, compared to our last MRI, is small, yet there is still an increase. We do not know if this means we were lucky enough to catch the initial growth of the tumor, or if this enhancement is really nothing and just how the contrast was flowing at the time the MRI was taken. After a long discussion with Dr. Fleener, we felt as though our best option was to in fact wait four more weeks and re-perform the MRI again, while continuing on chemotherapy and Avastin. The wai...