Update 1: NYC Memorial Sloan-Kettering

January 12, 2017

Good morning New York City! Early Thursday morning, up at 6:30am to meet the doctors at 8:30am and we stayed until 2:30pm doing various medical things. We've been enjoying learning the subway with a couple wrong turns. Before we met with the doctors we did registration with the financial office.

The doctors told us about her clinical trial. She's one of the few and one of the top specialist for esophageal cancer. She's in phase 3 of her clinical trial. They've had great success with these immunotherapy drugs treating lung cancers and now they're testing other applications. They set us up for a MSK impact test. They're going to do another biopsy of the esophagus for genetic testing for trial.

If we go this route, it'll take them about 2 weeks before my dad can start. In the meantime, while we wait, we're looking into going to MD Anderson in Houston.

Yesterday, Thursday, January 11th, my dad did another EKG and more blood work after the doctor's visit. Today, Friday, January 12th, my dad is doing another endoscopic biopsy. He is also scheduled to do a CT scan on Saturday, January 13th, and a PET scan on Monday, January 15th. The goal is to squeeze in a 3 phase bone scan with SPECT as well as a bone density test. Hopefully they won't have to biopsy his bone.