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To: Popman

-That being said, McCain should fully disclose his current Cancer prognosis-

I am a melanoma survivor. I had it first as a mole on my cheek and then five years later in a lymph node in my neck. It was walnut sized and found by my dentist. Like McCain, I also had all the lymph nodes removed in the area and it had not spread.

The problem with your statement is that there is no prognosis. No Doctor will say to anyone that they are cancer free only that there is no detectable cancer. All of us, at some time or other have cancer. Usually it is dealt with by the body’s immune system. It is when it is not that we get in trouble.

So there is not one person alive that can give a definitive cancer prognosis other than there is no detectable cancer. That was given and that is enough.


14 posted on 03/09/2008 5:24:19 AM PDT by KeyWest (Help stamp out taglines!)
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To: KeyWest
....a melanoma survivor

Congrads on being a survivor. A friend of mine has been fighting this for years.

19 posted on 03/09/2008 5:43:53 AM PDT by Popman (Gold Standard: Trying to squeeze a 50 lb economy back into a 5 lb bag)
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To: KeyWest

I pray for you every day, this disease can re-strike in the worst way.


22 posted on 03/09/2008 7:11:50 AM PDT by Shady (The Fairness Doctrine is ANYTHING but fair!!!!)
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