Last week, Shane went for his 3 month scans.

When the report came back, it said that there was some growth on the left side of Shane's upper chest and arm pit. Obviously we were concerned. Today we to Penn and met with his oncologist. First of all, she had not read his CT scans only the report. I told her we were not happy with that and questioned why she never reads the scans when we come see her, as I always send them down to her prior to our visit. She gave us some excuse as to most patients usually bring scans to their appointments, and I told her we are not most patients. I hope she got the hint that she better have the scans read from here on out when we come down for future visits.

Anyway, as I said she did read the report and was not very concerned with Shane's growth. The one tumor that grew the most was under his left armpit and that is not a dangerous part of the body. So now the doctor is going to compare the scans to the scans taken in October and his initial scans from 2008 and see if she thinks there is a 20% growth. If she feels that there is 20% then she will submit the scans to the drug company that is conducting the clinical drug trial. They are the ones that make the final decision. So now we wait again. We will not know anything more until the end of next week the earliest. Just a little update.
Until then...