After several anxious weeks, Mom went in this morning for a cat-scan to see how effective the summer’s chemo and radiation treatments were. Dr. Diggs, her oncologist, reviewed the cat scans, and he said that while the May cat scans showed the size of the tumor to be 5.5 cm by 5.5 cm, the current cat scan showed that it has shrunk to 4.3 cm by 2.2 cm. That’s about 30%! He’s not sure if it has shrunk enough to be operated on, but we’ll find that out when we meet with her surgeon on Thursday morning. For now, the possibility for surgery is still open!
The illustration below shows the difference:
