Today we went up to LDS Hospital to meet with Dr. Watsin. He is the radiologist who does the biospheres into the liver. What is a biosphere? Its a radiation treatment that they do from the inside. They go in from the groin area and inject the tumors in the liver with little glass beads of radiation. This is the only way to do radiation to the liver. If they were to do radiation from the outside it would kill off the healthy Liver before the cancer cells.
After talking to Dr. Watsin he felt the same way we did. After seeing that the colon was clean at this point and Cody has been handling chemo so well we should keep going forward with the chemo and hold radiation in our back pocket. Cody still had a concern about the spot on his pelvic bone so he asked if he could have radiation on it. They got him prepped and we zapped that little spot. Dr. Watsin felt like he would only need on zap to take care of it. So here he goes and eliminated one more spot.
This is the radiation machine that they put you under and it rotates around you in the area you are targeting.
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