Second meeting with Oncologist (October 9th) - We know a little more!!

We met with the oncologist again. We discussed lots of things with the doctor and had a lot to think about. As he stated, this is a pediatric bone cancer. We need to treat this cancer very aggressively with lots of chemotherapy. He has seen where there are a few documented cases similar to Michaels (location of the cancer and his age), but not many. He is going to treat this cancer as he would a kid. He did give us the option of going to Houston to MD Anderson and meeting with an oncologist that specializes in sarcomas.

Each Chemotherapy treatment cycle will consist of 1 week in the hospital and three weeks home. He will get chemotherapy for 5 days while in the hospital and then go home. We will do this for 6 cycles. After that, they will begin radiation and then re-evaluate. At that point they may or may not decide to do another 6 cycles of chemo.

He did say that all the tests they ran earlier (bone biopsy, bone marrow, bone scan, and the CT) did come back good. So that means only the tumor that was in the spinal fluid was it. He asked us to go home, think about what we wanted to do and call him again in the morning.