No News Yet - 10/9/07

Today's consult with Radiation Oncology didn't result in any treatment decisions as yet. First they need the specifics of the first 9-weeks of radiation he received in 2004 from a private Radiologist to determine the total load he's already received. He was re-radiated at NIH at the end of 2005 and they have those records. The 1st radiologist was called today and those records are in storage and it will take several days for them to be retrieved and sent to NIH. The report on the MRI of the cervical spine that was done last Tuesday afternoon hadn't been posted in their system yet so the doctors were going to go look at the films later today. Another problem is that since Warren isn't currently enrolled in any protocol they can't treat him. So they'll be working with the oncologists there to see if they can find another protocol for him that will allow treatment. They say they have a radiation treatment there that is similar to a cyber knife called Tomotherapy. That is a CT guided system for delivering very precise amounts of radiation all around the tumor (the picture above is of that device). Once they determine if it would be safe to give Warren any further radiation they'll let us know what they come up with for a treatment plan.

This treatment will help alleviate problems associated with spinal cord compression by the tumor. I don't believe that anyone thinks this will be a cure.

I think I'm just going to relax and enjoy this little break in the action, for as long as it lasts.