A year of remission brought a sense of relaxation and plans for a party to celebrate a cure. But a fever on April 28 this year meant a trip back to All Children's and the devastating news that the cancer had spread to Lyndsey's left lung. Lyndsey is halfway through 12 weeks of intensive induction chemotherapy. Signs of remission will be followed by a lung biopsy. If those results show complete remission, there will be more radiation and chemotherapy followed by continued maintenance therapy.
Partial remission means a bone marrow transplant.
Playing the waiting game is difficult, said Beth Staub, as she keeps the faith that her daughter will be all right. We don't know what' s coming next. Now Lyndsey smiled brightly, proud of the happy face she drew with a brown Betadine swab on the examining table'spaper covering. While they waited out the infusion, Beth Staub read to her daughter. The chairs in the room were filled with other bald children getting their chemo This last round of chemo was especially tough.