A Little Good News - And Another Pivot

Laura and I met with Dr. Noonan (oncologist) today, and she said:

• The CT scan a couple of weeks ago showed no growth in the single tumour (15mm x 18mm). More significantly, no new tumours anywhere else.
• The heart MRI I had last week showed myocarditis (swelling of the heart). All the other heart tests while I was in the hospital showed relatively normal (for me).
• This was most certainly caused by the months and months of nivolumab and Keytruda (immunotherapy) I had been on. This affects about 1% of people.
• She put me on a couple of months worth of prednisone to handle the myocarditis.
• Dr. Noonan stopped the combination chemo/immunotherapy. We may come back to it months from now, but as of today we have another avenue to travel.
• We'll re-engage the radiation team to see if they'll take me on - we know that the chemo had adverse effects, and the tumour appears stable (two things they talked about with their previous decision).
• Laura suggested that, if the radiation people decline, we should ask Dr. Wong (my urologist surgeon) if he'd take a crack at it. 
• I never pass up a chance at major surgery.