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  • Vanity: Best buddy diagnosed with Gallbladder Cancer, Advice

    08/20/2022 4:48:03 PM PDT · by DAC21 · 59 replies
    My best buddy of 47 years was just diagnosed with gallbladder cancer. (63 years old) His initial consultation was that it was inoperable. He has a second opinion in about two weeks. I have not talked to him other than a few texts yesterday when he informed me. I will see him in the next day or two. My own research indicates this is very bad, inoperable seems to indicate it has spread to the liver. Seems it's kind of like pancreatic cancer, it's just the metastasis comes via the Gallbladder. Apparently, this is relatively a rare cancer, 85,000 die...
  • VA study shows parasite from Vietnam may be killing vets

    11/22/2017 8:59:27 AM PST · by blam · 46 replies
    Fox News ^ | 11-22-2017
    Veterans returned to the U.S. after fighting in the jungles of Vietnam a half century ago, but hundreds of them may be dying from a silent bullet — a slow-killing parasite living in the men decades after the war, a new study revealed. Liver flukes, parasites that infect a human when raw or undercooked fish is eaten, are being investigated as the cause of a rare bile duct cancer among veterans who served in the Vietnam War. It could take years for symptoms to show up, but when they do, the host is left with tremendous pain and given just...