 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Liver's fine - hummin' along. I don't mess with it and it don't mess with me. They check it every 6 months along with a TSH test (that Mark was talking about - and he is absolutely correct - you should have a baseline TSH test).
The hep C has been asymptomatic for over 30 years now. The Onc. says there are over 5 million undx'd cases out there - claims that hep C is the "new frontier" of medicine. They gave me an antibody screening first then followed it up with a DNA/PCR test which is much more accurate for verification.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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