The doctor says that officially he has to wait until the tests come back from the lab, but it’s pretty rare for a count of ‘I couldn’t find anything‘ not to be duplicated. So Lissa’s cancer is in all likelihood ‘in remission’. What that means is that they can’t find any, so it’s obviously not doing anything nasty to her.
It doesn’t mean that its gone, because current technology does not enable us to verify that.
In the next stage, Consolidation, she gets a series of four weekly spinal taps (the first one was today), so that they can put chemo in her spinal fluid. Apparently the plan is to make sure that no cancer cells decide to ‘hide out’ in her brain, now that we’ve made the rest of her body so inhospitable.
The doctor says that this phase is a nice break for the kids, as there are essentially no medication side effects to worry about. 🙂
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