10/17/2007 Cancer Center at Loyola

October 17, 2007 - Wednesday
Medical upate: 10/17/07
We spent a good deal of the day today in the Cancer Center at Loyola. It's getting late, so I'll keep it brief and stick to the details...We met with our next doctor today. He is a surgeon specializing in cancer cases involving the head and neck. He went over Leslie's case with us-- didn't really tell us anything we hadn't heard already, but went into further detail. His name is Dr. Zender-- for the purposes of your ongoing prayers. :)After we did the consultation, Leslie had some additional X-rays and blood work done, and then we scheduled MRI and CT scans for this coming Friday. Dr. Zender will go over the details with his "tumor panel"-- a group of doctors at Loyola including an oncologist, surgeons, a radiologist, etc... which meets weekly to discuss each individual cancer case they come across. By Wednesday of next week, they should have our game-plan. We'll know what surgical procedure they've elected, whether radiation will be employed, and so-on. Hopefully, they'll have more details at that point as to what exactly this specific tumor is.There are the "facts" as we know them. We will update, moving forward, on this blog, as we get more info. If you care to know more about "how we're doing", read on... And thanks for reading.