Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Herbert, That is very good news and I'm glad for you. I understand about the diagnosis. When I had surgery for pancreatic cancer two years ago, it took a full 12 months for a diagnosis. It seems every biopsy and test indicated something more rare than the one before. But as they say, all's well that turns out well. Ken On 4/19/2015 9:24 PM, Herbert Kanner 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. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information