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Subject: [Leica] Health progress report
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 14:33:17 -0800
References: <0866C7B5-06E0-4EEF-82D0-39F1F1ADC9D5@acm.org>

> On Feb 21, 2015, at 10:16 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:
> 
> 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

I don't think it should be called rare as 15% of prostate cancer is 
associated with a  normal PSA level....

> 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, If the question is , what is in your femur ?, it could be suggested 
that they find out now what it is....


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