New Fight

Dear Friends and Family,

Jeanel was finally able to leave Huntsman on Wednesday evening and is currently recovering at her sister Suzette's house. She is very sore, tired, and emotionally drained. The ovarian pathology results came back today, and are most consistant with adenocarcinoma, poorly differentiated likely from a primary breast cancer, with 2/5 lymph nodes positive in the periaortic lymph nodes. All other biopsy results throughout the abdomen were negative. We think this means more chemotherapy in the near future and the battle will go on.

When we did the initial mastectomy we essentially "debulked" the tumor (got rid of the major source of tumor that could spread throughout the body). In essence, that is what we have again done, by getting rid of the ovary and the positive lymph nodes. These were the only areas big enough to highlight on the last PET scan. The purpose of more chemotherapy will be to further reduce any smaller residual areas of tumor in her body to keep the cancer in check. The hope is then we can return to another season of remission such as we have had for the last 9 months.

Thank you for your many notes and words of support and continued prayers,

Love,

Bruce