Originally Posted by zhawk  Wow. This really hits home, as I was diagnosed with Hodgkins in January, and am undergoing chemo right now. It is apparently the most common form of cancer for younger folks to get, and very very treatable these days.
I am just learning myself about all of this (I've had 5 of a scheduled 12 chemo treatments), but if Adam would like to talk to someone who is going through something similar, I'd be glad to pass along my e-mail address. |
Drop him an email directly --
awf6@cornell.edu
He just called me back, apparently the hospital got back in touch with him and said that it was a string of hodgkin's that they have never seen before. So I guess that usually Hodgkin's is 90% curable, but the fact that they haven't seen this before sounds bad. That is just the hospital in Ithaca though, perhaps the one when he gets home to Pittsburgh will have seen it before.
He is driving home to Pittsburgh tonight and he starts chemo next week.
I also forgot to mention that he said that the thing in his lung was just a spot and not cancerous (he probably fell really hard sometime and it left a mark). However, the tumor in his kidney is the size of a fist and the one in his liver is the size of a nickel.