just chest, they already checked the full body with those other scans and the chances of it moving during chemo are pretty low to impossible.

I haven't gone yet btw!!!

good news; the doc called about the cat scan. the tumor has shrunk a great deal. surgery is still looking likely, but the PET scan will determine that. and the tumor markers...

before chemo: 20,000
midway through: 2,000
day after chemo: 94

this means its reduced even further in the time since. so looks like chemo worked! too bad I'm probably having the surgery but hey, at least we have good news.

I'M NOT GOING TO DIE OF CANCER MAYBE???

That rules, congratulations.

holy shit steel, those results are incredible. That's actually made me feel great tonight, congratulations!

semper steel & gamegratulations. this rules. made my day!

this is awesome man.

use this opportunity to get back into shape young man!

use this opportunity to get back into shape young man!

you can even do it THE GAMER WAY just like carius

someone knocked out my fuckin teeth.

seriously.


AGAIN.

this is verygood also i have not had cigarette in 24 hours if i could i would bite the rest of your cancer out and eat it

use this opportunity to get back into shape young man!

I'm still not 100%; the nausea comes and goes, and I threw up yesterday. plus it would be better to do exercise after surgery because then the mass that is over my lungs would be gone entirely and I might be able to go up and down stairs without gasping.

this is verygood also i have not had cigarette in 24 hours if i could i would bite the rest of your cancer out and eat it

EAT YOUR LONGPIG LIKE A GOOD DELMON.

I'm still not 100%; the nausea comes and goes, and I threw up yesterday. plus it would be better to do exercise after surgery because then the mass that is over my lungs would be gone entirely and I might be able to go up and down stairs without gasping.

so there is still a lump of dead cancer cells sitting on your lungs? that sucks

ok

thanks in large part to these events i am sitting beside 220 pieces of nicotine gum that were given to me for free by the 1800QUITNOW hotline. haven't had the nerve to try them yet, but i'm going to in the next couple days. i hope it works, but i'm afeared.

THANKS A LOT PAL i was having a perfectly nice time with these carcinogens until you came along and took away the rest of their fun

What the fuuuuck i have been paying heaps for nicotine gum for weeks. I need to get onto this.

Also sweet news Steel.

this is awesome news! can't really say much more besides you did it bro

steel I would quit smoking for you if I hadn't already

Well, most people go through surgery anyway, in fact in a lot of tumors it's surgery first, chemo later.

Also Steel and for other people too:

Teratomas are basically fetal cell tumors, they form during gestation when cells fail to differentiate or migrate properly and when they go malignant they usually differentiate into all kinds of shit (I've seen pictures of removed teratomas containing skin, hair and teeth)

Well, if what you have is a teratoma... That would very probably and pretty much explain the whole "testicular cancer in lungs" thing.

Anyway, good luck and keep getting better... A big part of it is actually wanting to go through it.

yeah its very likely its a teratoma because I didn't have it anywhere else. I WONDER IF I HAD A TWIN AND ATE HIM IN THE WOMB.

also I got the results today, as in the actual numbers etc, and the tumor barely shrank. luckily the tumor markers indicate it's mostly dead, which is far more important but I've never had a surgery in my life so I'm scared still.