The Specialist

Today Saskia was seen by the head and neck specialist. He explained the results of the CT scan and clearly described what we saw on the pictures. He did not classify the operation as being great risk, but obviously he had to mention what could go wrong. We would like to forget about that!
However he has full confidence that the operation will be successful, which means that no chemo should be required thereafter.
This man also explained that this type of cancer is a weird one (if one can speak of weird for a cancer...). Usually with cancer tumours, all need to be removed in order to ensure that it will not return. However with neuroblastoma it is very well possible that any left over bits can turn in time into a benign tumour.
All in all, Saskia's diagnosis has improved greatly since last week, which we all are very thankful for.
We still do not know the date for the operation, but it will be "as soon as possible".