well another trip to the oncologist........

[musclehead]

gave us good news and bad news. the good news is the tumor in her neck has receded substantially, they had her do another CT scan, the bad news is the spots on her spine are growing. the medication for breast cancer is not affecting the cancer cells on her spine.

no chemo, again, we are going to have to make the trek up to Gainesville once a month for infusion therapy. it's a 24 month thing.

a word about cancer; I had an oncologists ear after all so I asked THE question. do you think there will be a cure for cancer in your lifetime. he thought that would be nice, but not a sure thing. there a cancers that were a death sentnece as few as 10-15 years ago, like CM luekemia and testicular cancer. you get'em you died. the reasearch is ongoing, his mentor just got done doing a study of 395 women with breast cancer and they mapped their geonome and the geonome of the cancers and the mutators and the 'triggers' they use to change. wether or not all this data will bring more treatments is anyone's guess, but it all seems to be chugging to a good end.

as a layman you may not be cured if you have to take 4 pills a day, but if it keeps you alive it's close enough for me.

[John Schmidt]

Tom, at least some good news....but I'm sorry to hear of it showing up in the spine. We need to chat in person sometime, like a lunch run, etc. Stay the good course my friend, I'm a living example that prayer does work.