Beautiful Words

I just heard Nate's oncologist say the words, "Nate is surgically CANCER FREE".  Now, we are not fooling ourselves.  The hardest part of Nate's fight is still to come, but we will REJOICE in these victories along the way.  The results from the surgical biopsies have come back.  The tumor from Nate's liver had clear margins, which means that the surgeon got it all!  He took 6 lymph nodes, one that was right next to the tumor and the 2 next to that one tested positive for neuroblastoma.  The 3 lymph nodes around those, came up negative.  These means that the lymph nosed essentially have clear margins as well.  All this adds up to the fact that Nate has NO DETECTABLE CANCER IN HIS BODY!!!!

That does not mean that it is not possible that there are microscopic bits of neuroblastoma hiding in Nate's body that can not be picked up by the current technology.  One neuroblastoma cell is too many.  That is why Nate must continue to fight and complete the rest of these terrible treatments.  We have faith and we BELIEVE that these treatments will do what they are supposed to do and Nate will continue to be CANCER FREE!!!