A busy day in cancerland - a trip to Cherry Creek for an exam, a drive to Anschutz for an ultrasound, and a relieving radiology report. The new lump I have turns out to be a "calcified suture" but damn if that thing doesn't feel just like my tumor did. Like a BB. Like something that just shouldn't be there. But for now, another sigh of relief that the thing is not The Thing.
In the name of science, I spit in a tube and sent my DNA - along with permission to obtain my medical records - to @countmein , a research endeavor from @danafarber that will track differences between my normal DNA, and my cancer DNA, to try to figure out how those cancer cells went rogue.
Unlikely to make a difference in my personal treatment, but kudos to them for such an ambitious endeavor. If you are interested, you can get a kit for yourself at joincountmein.org - open to all cancers, not just breast.
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