Kind of short today, really tired (this was last night) :) I will update this post later on today with all details.
Aj has responded well to treatment and therefor Dr. Fayad sees no reason to take him off chop. Dr. F said he would be crazy to change it since it seems like its working. He did mention that it was going to be administered directly into his bone marrow like in a lumbar punch as well as the IV. I think this is just to target the bone marrow more.
The reason he says that Aj is doing well is because he is feeling better, if the chemo hadn't been working, then he wouldn't feel so good.
Between cycle 3 and 4 we will go down to Houston for a quick visit to do a bone marrow biopsy & PET/CT scan and then see Dr. Fayad a week after that. That way they can really see what the chemo is doing and how Aj is responding.
PET & CT scan were all negative, no other activity than the one we already know about. :)
There are a couple of tests that Dr. Fayad wants to do if he can get the paraffin block or unstained slides from Seton. Tests: Survivin (which is how it sounds, the cells/tumor prone to survive) and to look for C56 - on outside pathology - outside of the bone marrow. If he is C 56 positive and/or survivin positive then he would be a candidate for bone marrow transplant. (these are just medical terms that he was using and its the molecular built of the cells)
If he has to do a bone marrow transplants, Oliver would be the first person that they look at, its only a 25% chance that he is a match. The girls are only a 1% chance. Dr. F said that if Oliver is not a match, then they would look for a donor. Family members would be out. I said about the stem cells that Oliver and Ale have but he said that even if it was a match, it wouldn't be enough. Its such a small amount in there that it couldn't make up for how much a grown person needs. I find it amazing that even Oliver would only be a 25% chance of being a match. Dr. F said that the donor bank should have a lot of options for Aj though.
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