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- From: KATTAN@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU (Mike Kattan)
- Newsgroups: alt.support.cancer
- Subject: Re: Prostate Cancer--it's now in the bone :-(
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 09:17:13 CDT
- Organization: University of Houston
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- References: <1993Jan23.043330.2599@netcom.com>
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- In article <1993Jan23.043330.2599@netcom.com>
- ekman@netcom.com (Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear) writes:
-
- >I had the bone scan today. It showed two spots on the spine: one in the
- >thoracic area, and one at hip level. The nuclear medicine specialist
- >hasn't seen it yet, to confirm that it's cancer, but I have little
- >doubt. The back pains have been fierce. If this is what a small spot
- >feels like, I hate to think what it's going to be like when it spreads.
-
- I hope not. I had three bone spots and never really felt any of them.
- Your case sounds like Bill Bixby's. They said he was on Sumarin, or
- something like that. Maybe that's another option.
-