General state as of October 19th

First as noted in "Tattoo" I should be starting chemoradiotherapy soon

The basic diagnosis is not so good as I have rectal cancer with a metastesis in the liver and possible metastesis in the left lung.

So far I have received 5 cycles of chemotherapy (oxalyplatin, fUracil, and anti EGFR) with surprisingly good results including dramatic reduction of the size of the liver metastesis and reduction of the size of the original tumor. FInally the complete lack of change of size of the suspect nodule in the lung increases hte hope that it is not cancer.

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