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Almost had surgery in November to take out the spots on my liver. Colon cancer loves some liver. So I was set to do surgery at MD Anderson, and they put markers in the liver to better show where they were on the lap surgery - when my onc surgeon said to take biopsies while they were pin cushioning my liver. When the results were negative, he said let's wait and see - I can catch it if it grows (all surgeons think they are the Naz). That was six months ago.

So a couple weeks ago I had a CT and the markers were there - but the lesions are flat gone. So they said it looks like the liver is good...but we think there is cancer in my lungs on the same CT. Just got the test results from the bronchoscopy I took last week, and that is all negative too. I swear, they just do not get the healing power of bourbon.
 
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Here's an interesting and promising study on a treatment for rectal cancer:

A Cancer Trial’s Unexpected Result: Remission in Every Patient

The study was small, and experts say it needs to be replicated. But for 18 people with rectal cancer, the outcome led to “happy tears.”

It was a small trial, just 18 rectal cancer patients, every one of whom took the same drug.

But the results were astonishing. The cancer vanished in every single patient, undetectable by physical exam, endoscopy, PET scans or M.R.I. scans.

Dr. Luis A. Diaz Jr. of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, an author of a paper published Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine describing the results, which were sponsored by the drug company GlaxoSmithKline, said he knew of no other study in which a treatment completely obliterated a cancer in every patient.

“I believe this is the first time this has happened in the history of cancer,” Dr. Diaz said.

Dr. Alan P. Venook, a colorectal cancer specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, who was not involved with the study, said he also thought this was a first.

A complete remission in every single patient is “unheard-of,” he said.

These rectal cancer patients had faced grueling treatments — chemotherapy, radiation and, most likely, life-altering surgery that could result in bowel, urinary and sexual dysfunction. Some would need colostomy bags.

They entered the study thinking that, when it was over, they would have to undergo those procedures because no one really expected their tumors to disappear.

But they got a surprise: No further treatment was necessary.

“There were a lot of happy tears,” said Dr. Andrea Cercek, an oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and a co-author of the paper, which was presented Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
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Another surprise, Dr. Venook added, was that none of the patients had clinically significant complications.

Entire article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/health/rectal-cancer-checkpoint-inhibitor.html
 
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My best friend’s six-year old finished her second round of chemo last week. Tumors (one on each of her kidneys) have shrunk from grape fruits to something smaller than golf balls. She’s under the knife today to have the tumors removed. The chemo rounds allowed for them to attempt to save the kidneys. First round of surgery this AM is complete and all is going as well as hoped.

Cancer sucks.
 
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Sister is fighting Brain Cancer at the James. Actually it won’t be the cancer that kills her in the end, but the myriad of infections that they keep having to fight.

She was fine and working in the yard in October and then she was in the hospital a day later having emergency surgery to remove the tumor.

Missed her oldest sons wedding in December. We were there visiting her at the James over Memorial Day. Her youngest son was there with his six week old.

You couldn’t meet a more faithful individual who has done more to help and support others. Her and her husband have done a lot to support a Vietnamese school for girls through their church and have gone there to help the kids.

Her husband an AF retiree, just cleared cancer issues roughly 6 months ahead of this.

Yeah Cancer sucks!
 
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buckeyebri said:
Sister is fighting Brain Cancer at the James. Actually it won’t be the cancer that kills her in the end, but the myriad of infections that they keep having to fight.

She was fine and working in the yard in October and then she was in the hospital a day later having emergency surgery to remove the tumor.

Missed her oldest sons wedding in December. We were there visiting her at the James over Memorial Day. Her youngest son was there with his six week old.

You couldn’t meet a more faithful individual who has done more to help and support others. Her and her husband have done a lot to support a Vietnamese school for girls through their church and have gone there to help the kids.

Her husband an AF retiree, just cleared cancer issues roughly 6 months ahead of this.

Yeah Cancer sucks!
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Very sorry to hear this.
 
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