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Hi Alan,
Again, you're in our prayers and thoughts. I wanted to mention that the waiting, now that your date isn't until next month, is really the worst part, especially if they are able to do the 'scope surgery as Wagtail noted. The scopes are so minimally invasive that people are often walking around the floor later that same day. In my reading about Renal Cell Carcinoma for my prior PA job in interventional radiology, it said that a very very large percentage of the tumors found are termed "indolent", or slow growing, and present a significantly reduced risk of metastasis until they are really huge. My observations over the 7 years I worked there concur with this. We became involved when people only had one kidbey, for any of various reasons, and a tumor was discovered in it, or if they were too ill or frail for the nephrectomy, and then we would either biopsy the tumor and then ablate it, or if it had enough distinguishing characteristics that no biopsy was requested, we'd just ablate it. How?, by freezing it using long needle-like probes that were cooled by argon gas. We used a CT-Scanner to place the probes and watch the freezing process to make sure the whole mass was treated. Just like freezing a wart, except on the inside.
Anyway, keep a positive attitude, and probably most importantly, remember to breathe- take at least a couple full deep breaths every hour while awake as practice and to get ready for the recovery process, and anesthesia. It helped me through the waiting to get my new knee, and made the recovery process easier too.
Take care and God bless,
Thomas
Again, you're in our prayers and thoughts. I wanted to mention that the waiting, now that your date isn't until next month, is really the worst part, especially if they are able to do the 'scope surgery as Wagtail noted. The scopes are so minimally invasive that people are often walking around the floor later that same day. In my reading about Renal Cell Carcinoma for my prior PA job in interventional radiology, it said that a very very large percentage of the tumors found are termed "indolent", or slow growing, and present a significantly reduced risk of metastasis until they are really huge. My observations over the 7 years I worked there concur with this. We became involved when people only had one kidbey, for any of various reasons, and a tumor was discovered in it, or if they were too ill or frail for the nephrectomy, and then we would either biopsy the tumor and then ablate it, or if it had enough distinguishing characteristics that no biopsy was requested, we'd just ablate it. How?, by freezing it using long needle-like probes that were cooled by argon gas. We used a CT-Scanner to place the probes and watch the freezing process to make sure the whole mass was treated. Just like freezing a wart, except on the inside.
Anyway, keep a positive attitude, and probably most importantly, remember to breathe- take at least a couple full deep breaths every hour while awake as practice and to get ready for the recovery process, and anesthesia. It helped me through the waiting to get my new knee, and made the recovery process easier too.
Take care and God bless,
Thomas
