Dr. Weissman called this morning with the pathology report on my kidney cancer. It is as good as we could ever hope for.
• Renal cell cancer was confined to the kidney itself (this is fantastic - it had not spread!)
• Lymph nodes were completely clear. Enlarged, but they had no cancer in them.
• Tumor was 12 cm, pretty big, which makes it a low stage 2 cancer but only because of the size of the tumor
The net is, that it was confined to the kidney and they got all of that so things look very, very positive. The next steps are to get my staples removed and then we'll have some other questions about the recovery. As far as cancer follow up, we'll be doing CAT scans every 6 months or so to look for any recurrence. There is no plan for radiation therapy or chemo because this type of cancer doesn't respond to it and, beside, we think it is pretty much gone.
Everyone at the Evans house is doing a happy dance today :)
Woo Hoo! Awesome news... we are all very happy for you! Samwich says "BA!". (thats all he knows how to say...)
see ya soon!
- Megan
Posted by: Megan | January 16, 2008 at 06:50 AM
SUPER happy to hear the great news! I'm sure the whole family is ecstatic and relieved. Get a great night sleep. :)
Posted by: JoeB | January 16, 2008 at 08:35 PM
This is great news! Yay! Continue to recover quickly!
Posted by: ShaunIv | January 17, 2008 at 01:22 AM
Yipppeee! Excellent news! So happy for you :)
Posted by: Kristen | January 17, 2008 at 08:52 AM
Hooray for the great report! And just think: now you have yet another thing in common with Steve Jobs.
Posted by: ScottyK | January 18, 2008 at 09:26 AM