OP  Senior Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 188 | there is a treatment interruption (more of a delay than an interruption) in that the biopsy needs to be done two weeks after the end of a treatment phase. for palliative treatment this means waiting until the current treatment phase is no longer working/effective. so his biopsy would 1) need to be done 2 weeks after a completed treatment, and 2) be cultured withing 24 hours of the actual biopsy.
Caco
CG to Dad. Biopsy 5/11 non-op, SCC stage IV poorly dif at base of tongue with nodes, quit smoking in '85, ChemoRad began 8/2/11 ended 9/22/11 with NED. Distant mets 11/11, clinical trials. War raging on!
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