[Leica] Health progress report

[Bernard Quinn]

Herb,

I am sorry to hear this. I wish you good luck with your up coming treatments and I hope that your doctors get this confusion sorted out.

Barney

Barney Quinn, WK3Z
C: (301) 775-1386 
H: (301) 654-0938

> On Feb 22, 2015, at 1:16 AM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Herb
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> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
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