On Sun, 29 May 2016 23:47:16 +0100, Doctor John wrote:

> ... so, it's time to let you let you all what's happening to me.
> 
> In September last year I was diagnosed as having Mantle Cell Lymphoma.
> It's relatively rare and thus difficult to treat. It's also diagnosed
> late, mainly because it shows few, if any, symptoms in its early stages;
> by the time I was diagnosed I was at stage 4b. This was not good.
> 
> Luckily, I was assigned a brilliant consultant, David Wrench (a Scot,
> but don't hold that against him), who fought to have me included in a
> new trial protocol that has a fighting chance of preventing me from
> joining the Choir Invisible for a few years yet. I get a PET scan in
> about 10 days time to confirm our suspicions that I may be heading for
> remission. If that is actually the case then I get a Stem Cell
> Transplant in the late Summer.
> 
> I tell you this so that you don't all wonder why I might have
> disappeared from the ng in a few month's time.
> 
> Oh, nearly forgot: What's the Subject line about? I'm just a foot
> soldier who volunteered to be part of the Forlorn Hope. If it all works
> we'll be one step closer to ridding the world of cancer.

That is promising news.  I think Stephen may have shared with you that my 
sister-in-law's husband was diagnosed with MCL about 2.5 years ago.  
Sadly, he was not diagnosed in time, but he hung in there as long as he 
could to provide data about this form of cancer because it's so rare.

We wish you the very best success in your treatment - with hopes that the 
PET scan shows you are going into remission.

Jim

-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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