Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/02/21

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Subject: [Leica] Health progress report
From: kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 22:16:58 -0800

I haven?t wielded a camera much lately; a little to demoralized. This cancer 
was discovered in late October. There was a default assumption that it was a 
rare variety of prostate cancer, rare because my PSA has stayed below 1 ever 
since 2001, when I had radiation therapy for a few millimeters of cancer 
cells of what they said was an aggressive variety.

So, the prostate oncologist says: ?We can?t treat it until we know what it 
is." Well, it took from then late October to a couple of weeks ago go get 
the department called ?Interventional Radiology? to do a needle biopsy of my 
femur. The orthopedic surgeon/oncologist had already ruled that drilling to 
get a pathology sample was too risky.

The state of knowledge as of today is that I was told they are all confused, 
because the pathology report says one kind of cell and a blood marker says 
another kind. The current state of therapy is that starting this Monday I 
get ten consecutive radiation treatment on weekdays to zap the thing in my 
femur.


Herb


Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org
650-326-8204

Question authority and the authorities will question you.






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