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Subject: [Leica] OT: Health report
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 20:03:42 -0700
References: <0B6E7794-BCE4-4980-8427-5C95F24CF6DC@acm.org>

Excellent News, Herb!

On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:

> I now have the nearest I can get to a final report. Remember, it all
> started with a lesion in my left femur, whose only symptom was what I
> thought was a strained muscle in my thigh. The first physician who saw the
> X-ray was told by three radiologist (so he said) that my hip was on the
> verge of breaking, and that I should be wheeled immediately to the
> emergency room as the fastest way of getting into the hospital (Stanford).
> Eventually an orthopedic surgeon saw the X-ray and told me to go home, that
> there was no immediate danger of a fracture, and that I would see an
> orthopedic surgeon the following Tuesday.
>
> Things then went from bad to worse, because it took about four months to
> get a definitive diagnosis. The orthopedic surgeon said that drilling for a
> sample was too risky, and the long wait was to get the critters called
> "Interventional Radiologists" to do a needle biopsy. This is quite a
> production, because it is a biopsy guided by a CAT scan, so there is that
> crew of one or two surgeons, a couple of nurses, a radiologist to tell the
> surgeons what they are seeing, and a pathologist to tell them if the sample
> is big enough. They're all wearing lead aprons. And I'm injected with
> "happy voice" so that even fully conscious (so it seemed), I feel
> absolutely no pain.
>
> The result was a very slow-growing prostate cancer, a breed that didn't
> raise the PSA. The specialist-in-prostate-cancer-oncologist felt that any
> treatment more than a pill that cuts testosterone would be over-kill. The
> orthopedic surgeon, looking at the x-rays that followed two weeks of daily
> radiation treatments to my hip concluded that the tumor had been
> sufficiently "killed" that he made the next appointment to see him a year
> from now.
>
> Herb
>
>
>
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
>
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
>
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