Monday, July 25, 2011

Gene sequence hiccup

The paraffin slides of my tumor that were saved from one of my surgeries in 2009 are no good to use for the gene sequencing. Believe it or not, they do not contain enough tumor (cancer). How ironic.

Dr. Schraeder (my oncologist) and Dr. Krasna (the surgeon) will look at my latest PET/CT scans to determine if some viable tumor can be obtained using the least invasive needle biopsy procedure. They (and I) are quite reluctant to "disturb" anything inside me using anything more invasive. Go figure.

Help someone else to help themselves.

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