Welcome to Richard Brett's Web Page. It has been provided to keep people updated on his health. Richard Brett was diagnosed with Stage V Bilateral Wilms' Tumors on September 23rd, 2002. He started chemotherapy within the week. On December 12th, 2002, he had his right kidney removed and a quarter of his left. He continued with chemotherapy until February 27th, 2003. His MRI's have shown "no evidence of disease" ever since. Since Richard Brett's Wilms considered "inherited" (only 1 % of all Wilms" are his type) he has a highter chance of secondary tumors so he continues to have an MRI, chest X-Ray and full blood panel every 3 months.

Journal

Saturday, September 27, 2008 5:41 PM CDT

Good news¡Kwhatever is on Richard Brett¡¦s kidney doesn¡¦t appear to be Wilms¡¦¡Kor cancer. One radiologist (the one at his pedi office) thought it looked like calcium deposits and the other (at his oncologists office) thinks it¡¦s a cyst. Both plan on looking at all his past tests to try to determine what do next¡Kor do nothing at all. We are greatly relieved but still interested in what it is. We are meeting with his nephrologist on Monday to talk about his frequent UTI¡¦s so perhaps he can shed some light, or at least tell us what the ramifications of each scenario.

I have to say, as positive of a person as I am, this one had me very scared.

Thank you all for your good thoughts and prayers ļ

Robin

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