So the biopsy results confirm that he has a neuroblastoma. He will start chemo tonight. The plan is for at least two but possibly up to 8 cycles of chemo. For now he will get carboplatin and etoposide today and etoposide day 2 and day 3. His counts will dip and start to recover around day 10-14. He will get GCSF to help with count recovery. For cycle 2, which is in 21 days, he gets carboplatin, cyclophosphamide and doxorubicin. After cycle 2 (in 42 days) they will rescan and see how big the tumor is. They might be able to surgically remove it at this point, if not, he'll continue on chemo.
He will stay intubated for now. No one is sure when he will get extubated. It will depend on how the tumor responds.
We are still waiting to hear if it is a low, medium or high risk neuroblastoma.
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