We finally heard back from the doctors, Dad will start radiation and chemotherapy on Tuesday, September 15, 2015. They've decided to do all of his treatments at Big Barnes in St. Louis because Dr. Ansstas, one of Dad's oncologists, will be able to monitor him much closer than he would if he was getting treatments at the West County Center. They'll be able to do MRI's as needed as well as office visits.
One of the reasons they want to be able to monitor him so closely is because the MRI that was done this past Monday shows that the tumor has grown since surgery. We're not sure exactly how much it's grown, but it is large enough now that he does not qualify for the radiation clinical trial either. One of the doctors mentioned a trial that would start after the first round of chemo/radiation, however we don't have any information on it right now.
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