Hello everyone,
I just wanted to update you all on my brother's progress. He's been doing target radiation since Jan. 9th. They started with his larger tumor on his lower back and now they are targeting the cerebellum and he has been doing good so far. He gets a little nauseous and tired, but he still has his energy. This past Tuesday he was fitted for a mask for his brain. Since most of the tumors are in the cerebellum, the doctor decided just to treat that whole area, but there are only 3 small tumors in the cerebrum, the doctor wants to do radiosurgery to those 3 tumors. So the mask will cover all of the other area of the brain and just leave those 3 areas exposed for the treatment. He will get that done next week on Wednesday. Last week on Jan. 12th, we received news that there was no mutation in the biopsy on this first series of tests. Today, we received the final results and received news that were is absolutely no mutation at all. So the only thing left is chemotherapy. My brother was hoping to avoid chemotherapy because of all the things he hears about it, but he certainly cannot and does not want to avoid it now. This will start right after they finish with his radiation therapy. Next week he will also meet with a doctor from MD Anderson to see if there are any clinical trials he could participate in, but those wouldn't start for a few weeks and my brother wants to get all his treatment done now and not wait. As of now, all we can do is wait and pray that this is the correct treatment. He has kept a positive attitude although it gets very hard sometimes, but he has great support in his family.