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Posted 2018-11-12T22:17:11Z

Update on Eden

To our friends and family, Eden has continued a pretty amazing recovery since her diagnosis almost two and a half years ago. And, still, skies look pretty good, but we've been dealing with some passing clouds over the past 5 months. In July, an area in her brain lit up on her regular, quarterly MRI. Given the location of the spot, the lack of symptoms, and a number of other factors, the doctors had a strong suspicion that this was cellular necrosis, damage to healthy cells as a result of her radiation treatment a couple of years ago and not tumor progression. While proton radiation is fairly exact, there is often collateral damage to healthy cells in the surrounding tissue. We were put in a bit of a holding pattern and continued to have other types of imaging done over the next several months, including MRI with spectroscopy as well as a PET scan. The additional scans were being used to verify the treatment effect hypothesis.[...]