Today Nancy met with Dr Jason Call of Cancer Care Northwest. He is a radiation oncologist. Nancy will start the process Friday for SBRT or Stereotactic Body Radiation Treatment. This will be for pinpointing radiation to 3 specific spots on Nancy’s liver. The process is as follows 1) Placing markers. Nancy this Friday will have 3 metal markers placed next to the spots in her liver (outpatient and done at Sacred Heart Hospital) 2) MRI will be done Monday at Sacred Heart 3) Friday July 26 the CT Scan with additional RF camera set up will be done at the Cancer Care facility downtown. These first 3 are required to make set-up for the treatments. 4) Planning by the Doctors which will take 7-10 days. Treatments will start somewhere around the first full week of August. There are 2-3 treatments per week, and it will take probably 5 treatments over 2 weeks (it is possible it could take 10 total treatments) for Nancy. There is a 2 week sabbatical of no treatments after radiation has been completed. Nancy would then resume chemo with Dr Anthony.
Dr Call says Nancy starting now is optimum as she has not had chemo for 2 weeks. The sooner the treatments start, the better the result.
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