Baby Girl Harding: End of Chemo Scans

Charlotte scan results are in and she is officially cancer free!! So many happy tears have been shed today!! Her MIBG scan and CT scan were clear. There was no regrowth of the tumor in the original area. The eye orbit has still not completely healed however there is no more tumor tissue in the orbit. The bone marrow showed no tumor cell clusters. The scans of her heart look good too!! The only news that we got that is less than exciting was that Charlotte does have some minimal hearing loss in her right ear. The hearing loss is at pretty high frequency and shouldn’t affect her much in the long run. It will continue to be monitored at Cooks to see if affects her ability to develop language later in life.

Charlotte will now go to monthly check ups with her oncology doctor. She will have scans again at the end of January. They will continue to do a CT scan and an MIBG scan for a while but eventually I think she will go to just a CT scan. They want to watch her very carefully even though the scans are clear. Due to Charlotte not truly being in a clear Neuroblastoma classification (non-amplified N-Myc gene coupled with a secondary site and other elevated pathologies put her at a higher intermediate risk, but not high risk) she will continued to be monitored closely to hopefully make sure the cancer does not come back. When we asked her doctor about relapse rates, just trying to emotionally prepare ourselves for the future, she said she is cautiously optimistic. Charlotte will likely get her port removed after her first round of scans, so around the end of January/beginning of February. This will be an outpatient procedure.

God is so good. We cannot thank you enough for all of your answered prayers!

“Dear Cancer, Thank you for making me stop and listen and remember what’s important. You can go now.”

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