[Leica] Health progress report

[Steve Barbour]

> On Feb 21, 2015, at 10:16 PM, 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

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.
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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.

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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