Fuller,
Laws & I are so sorry for the tragic loss of your nephew. This sounds like a rare cancer.
Our thoughts & prayers are with you & your family.
Sincerely,
Laws & Marilyn
--- In protoninfo@yahoogroups.com, "Fuller Jones" <protoninfo@...> wrote:
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> Sooner or later cancer of some kind will strike every family.
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> My favorite nephew, age almost 45, died this morning of advanced cancer. One year ago he was diagnosed with a tumor in the back of his nasal passage. He spent the last several months (until about April, ) undergoing a terrible time with chemo AND standard radiation. Lost his hair of course, and had horrific radiation burns on his throat and neck.
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> This was sudden, and he died at home, totally unexpected by his family (three children and his loving wife). I suspect that he knew how bad it was, and did not tell his family in order to spare them.
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> He was deeply religious, and is now with God.
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> When he was diagnosed, I of course told him about proton therapy, but he did not investigate it, and offered no explanation why not, but I suspect that it was because of insurance issues.
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> This cancer stuff is serious and I suppose that we are the "fortunate" ones since prostate cancer is usually slow growing and more easily treatable.
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> Now that I found and had the melanoma on my leg removed, you can believe that I am most careful about new spots, etc, and on my visit yesterday to my dermatologist, he sent two new samples from my back in for pathology.
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> If you have not been to the skin doc for a checkup in a while (or never) I STRONGLY urge you to do so! And pay strong attention to new warning signs of anything that may be a beginning symptom; cancer is USUALLY TREATABLE if CAUGHT EARLY! But we know that don't we?
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> Fuller
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