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And I choose to spend it with you degenerates... and also in class.

Shout out to my left kidney for picking up the slack

I don't drink, but if y'all do drink one for me. I'll have smokey my celebration later.

And if I recall correctly, @TeTe is sitting on a hefty pile of years. Congrats to you too all well good sir!

Burn pits and hoes don't mix

Me: 1

Cancer: 0

EDIT: I forgot to add my celebration song.

 
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Congrats, and Cheers to your good health!
 
Fedorgasm said:
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JK bro, happy anniversary
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Very happy for you.
Do you still have two kidneys or was the cancerous one removed?
 
AFanNotAFighter said:
Very happy for you.
Do you still have two kidneys or was the cancerous one removed?
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‘tis gone

I asked if I could keep it in a jar, which I couldn’t. It had to be sent to pathology to confirm that it was cancer. I asked the doctor to take a pic during the surgery and she forgot. I wanted a locket with a picture of my cancerous kidney in it. Now that moment had passed. Sad.
 
Fedorgasm said:
That's weird that they test it afterwards. What if it wasn't cancer? They going to put it back in?
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That’s actually a fair question.

To start, from discovery to removal was less than 2 weeks. When it was discovered the tumor was 8cm x 8cm x 9cm while fully inside my kidney. The tumor created another blood vessel to my renal artery, a blood vessel that humans don’t have. I had to sign a release so that part could be used in teaching materials. The doctor was confident she knew what kind of cancer it was and that removal of my kidney would be sufficient, she was right.
She offered to do a biopsy to make sure, and since this was an Air Force doctor I could to a civilian doctor if I’d like. But since it was that large when it was discovered she recommended operating as soon as possible. And thankfully that did the trick.
Though there are residual effects from the surgery itself, no signs of cancer since.
For that specific type of cancer, clear cell renal carcinoma, the five year mark is the real milestone. I’m down to a 2% chance of recurrence now.
 
Congratulations! I don’t believe I had ever heard of kidney cancer before. Is it one of the more rare ones compared to say prostate or colon? My Dad died last summer or appendix cancer which I never knew was a thing but it’s occurrence is apparently only 1 in 2 million.
 
They're making significant progress in fighting cancer the last few years. I believe in the next 5 years, we'll have at least a couple of very strong methods for getting rid of most cancers.
 
Law Talkin’ Guy said:
Congratulations! I don’t believe I had ever heard of kidney cancer before. Is it one of the more rare ones compared to say prostate or colon? My Dad died last summer or appendix cancer which I never knew was a thing but it’s occurrence is apparently only 1 in 2 million.
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I don't know how rare it is, but the specific kind I had was very treatable.

But when it all first started to unfold I thought I had been handed a death sentence. Just like you, I had never heard of kidney cancer. I'd never seen any 5k races or awareness months(April) for kidney cancer, I had just assumed everyone that got it was dead.
All cancer is serious, but there's another form of kidney cancer that poses a greater threat than the one I had.
 
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