Reports
June 6, 2014.
We received the report from Dr. Baruchel (Oncologist) yesterday.
Having heard to his explanation to Cass's pathology report and her
situation, the first thing I said to Cass was: "You really need to pray
and leave everything to God for your daily life". My feeling is
complicated and I still think it's too hard for Cass's life. We have
mixed news, but we thank God anyhow for what we believe is still a good
situation.
Cassidy is currently
tumour-free. As far as the doctors are concerned, all the osteosarcoma
cells have been removed (in good margin). Cassidy will be classified
under "constant observation" for the time being to ensure she is
completely clean. Both cancer cells previously detected were indeed
“osteosarcoma”. Since those cancer cells found in Cass's two turmors did
not respond to the chemo drugs, there would be no effective chemo drugs
which could effectively deal with these bad cells. Hence, the hospital
had decided to remove them with surgery rather than applying chemo
drugs. During such time, I was scared when I heard from the oncologist
that surgery was required instead......There's no precaution, no chemo
drugs, no study for Cass's case of her late relapse in soft tissue. Now I
understand why we call it "絶症" in Chinese.
Cassidy's
case is a medical anomaly to the doctors at Sickkids. They have never
had a patient whose late relapse of cancerous lesions or tumours have
grown in soft tissue. Cassidy has been declared to have a 40-50% chance
of another relapse (although it will be like this relapse) that could
possibly have more tumours returning in the soft tissue of her body.
However, the hospital would plan to remove any tumours that could ever
be found in Cass again in the future by surgery. From now on we will
need to see the oncology team more often. Besides this, will go for the
physical check up and X-Ray or CT scan every three months. There will be
two meetings to follow up with Cass’s case: first with a surgeon and
afterwards with a genetics doctor. They will update us on Cassidy's
return to swimming and the possibility of finding out more about Cass's
cancer and her relapse in the future, respectively.
If
I could rephrase what I talked to Cass after the meeting with the
doctors, I would have said: "Give it everything you’ve got, and trust
God for the outcome...to hope, to love, to serve. Live one day at a
time."
Please continue to pray for
Cass. This is the battle she is called to fight for. "Right now we can’t
see a cure for cancer, not literally in front of us. But the vision is
there, and countless teams of individuals — doctors and nurses,
scientists and researchers — are living the vision. They see a day in
the not-so-distant future when we will live in a cancer-free world."
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