Nicholle Anderson’s latest medical tests reveal that her primary tumour, behind her nose, has shrunk dramatically.
In an update published on her blog, StickbyNick, the wife of Ottawa Senators goalie Craig Anderson said her newest CT scan “shows a pretty clear nasopharynx area.”
Anderson is battling a rare form of head and neck cancer known as nasopharyngeal cancer. The nasopharynx is located behind the nose, in the upper part of the throat.
Anderson said her radiation oncologist at New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Nancy Lee, told her after reviewing the scan that “if she wouldn’t have known I had NPC (nasopharyngeal cancer), she would think my area looked normal.