MiBG Report

An excerpt from today's MiBG report:

1. Continued negative I-123 MIBG scan of the whole body including the
liver and both lower extremities. There is persistent benign
physiologic uptake in the right adrenal gland which is unchanged from
prior exams. There is no evidence of recurrent or metastatic
neuroblastoma noted on this exam. When correlated with the CT scan of
the chest, abdomen, and pelvis of the same date, there is no correlate
for the possible lesion seen in the left hepatic lobe.

In other words, this is good news. An MiBG scan is neuroblastoma-specific, so the fact that it does not register the spot from the CT provides us a fair amount of relief. It still doesn't tell us what that spot is and there still is an outside chance (less than 10%) that it could be neuroblastoma, despite the fact that it is MiBG-negative, but those are much better odds than what we were considering last week.... In short, we'll take it!

Five and a half weeks to go until re-scan. Please keep Andrew in your thoughts.

Paul