12/08/08 - Well that's what they want to do. I had another MRI scan today and the glioma's grown again. That may explain that seizure a couple of weeks or so ago. Anyway, now the neurosurgeon wants to do a biopsy and almost certainly also wants to start radiotherapy. As you can imagine, this has not made me the happiest bunny in the world, for a number of reasons.
Firstly, you only get one shot at radiotherapy (that doesn't mean only one "zap", as it were, but that you can only use radiotherapy as a treatment once). So if it's too early - tough. It'll clear up what it can, but that doesn't mean it gets rid of everything. And so it just reduces rather than kills off the effect of the tumour. Secondly, you still have to go through all the awfulness of Radiotherapy.
The tumour is not a lump - it's a distributed 'cloud' of cancerous cells - and so it can't just be plucked out. The biopsy will just, hopefully, identify what sort of cells these are, and this may change the medication I'm taking.
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