Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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: > > 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. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information