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James has Wilms' Tumors (update 2)

Thank you for your continued love, support, and prayers.  An update for James is that yesterday (7/11) James had his sixth chemotherapy treatment, which is the final treatment of his first round of chemotherapy. Last Friday (7/8) he had an MRI and CT scan to check the progress of the chemotherapy treatments, which yesterday we received the results for. These results were our first chance to see how well the chemo is actually doing. Here were the options: 1) One round of chemotherapy miraculous got rid of all the cancer in his body (0% chance) 2) Chemo reduced the tumor's size to the doctor's satisfaction to proceed with surgery. Surgery will take place on Friday to remove the largest tumors and radiation to remove the smaller ones. After the surgery more rounds of chemo will be needed to prevent the tumors from growing back (pretty low chance of this) 3) Chemo isn't working as well as expected, as in the tumors didn't shrink as much as the doctors would have expected th...