Stop playing with your tumor

We checked into the hospital this morning. We showed the doctor the photos of Robin's progress. The pictures show: the day before the first chemo, the week after the first chemo (smallest tumor size), and what she looks like now.

The doctor said we don't want to be "playing accordian" with the tumor making it smaller and then having it rebound to such a large size. He explained that in typical tumors only a few of the cells are replicating at any one time, but it SNUC *all* of the cells can be replicating *all* of the time. Chemo should be knocking down the size significantly and radiation should be keeping it small.

He said they will take a look at making changes to the future chemo and/or radiation therapy schedule because the tumor is growing so fast.