Lisa had her scans this afternoon.  We haven't gotten the written reports, but we were told that the brain scan showed no cancer there.  In talking with the oncologists nurse, she said the radiologist and the oncologist are recommending an MRV scan which shows better views of the vascular system.  There's a little confusion since we don't have much information -- MRV is "Magnetic Resonance Venography" which images blood vessels to, from, and around the heart, but the nurse gave us the impression that the need for this was a result of the brain MRI.  However, the equivalent of an MRV that images blood vessels in and around the brain is called and MRA, "Magnetic Resonance Angiography". We do already know that Lisa's tumor is compressing certain major veins and arteries around her heart, so an MRV makes more sense, but we'll find out tomorrow.

Although we don't have the report or info from the oncologist on the CT results, I got a copy of the scan images and have compared them to the December CT.  My interpretation of what I'm seeing is that the tumor growth has slowed compared to the growth rate between September and December, but continues.  Of course what we'd hoped for -- but didn't expect because of Lisa's symptoms -- is that this chemo would have halted growth and in fact reversed it, as the previous chemo had done for many months.  I should be able to get the actual report tomorrow, and in any case we'll be meeting with the oncologist on Tuesday.