Please Welcome My Friend ... Adenocarcinoma NSCLC

My Loved Ones, Family and Friends,

Please join me in welcoming my friend, Adenocarcinoma NSCLC, which I can only called him Cancer the other day. You may still remember that he visited me a few weeks ago but was not very open with me in our communication. Now, I am glad to inform everyone here and would also like you to welcome my friend here. Adenocarcinoma is his first name (cancer cell type), while NSCLC is his family name, i.e. short form for Non Small Cell Lung Cancer. (As shown in the above picture.) He actually belongs to one of the biggest family of Lung Cancer and most people in the field know him well.

As promised earlier, now that he has come forward, we are going to "live with him" and we are going to "treat him well". With these two objectives in mind, soon after the radiotherapy sessions (on my spines), we are going to perform the chemotherapy, possibly by early April, 2010. With my own semi-professional knowledge in the field (in the pharmaceutical side), and also through consultation with a few more experts in the field, we will have to decide which drugs (usually more than 1 but not more than 3), the dose, and treatment cycles that we are going to implement. It is important that one of the selection criteria of the drugs is on it's side effects. (This leads to another major discussion that rather than killed by the cancer, patients are actually killed by the drugs who was injected to kill the cancer.) As the self-defensive system is weak during the treatment, other bacterias and germs, just normal ones, may cause serious fatal infections. Taking proactive preventing measurements seems the most logical thing to do, instead of merely worrying.

After the first treatment cycles, once body condition is stable, it is likely that a second treatment cycle, with the objective to control future growth, will be defined and implemented.

An eight months life expectancy was given in my case, and it's only a statistic number, or like they say "more or less". Quite a few of you are so kind to cheer me up by providing true stories of people, with cancers like me, that have lived many months and years longer than what the doctors pronounced.

What's important, for me, is to accept that now my friend is living with me, he becomes part of me, part of my living. What's important, for me, is not asking how long my life will last, but how to live it to the fullest everyday!

Like some of you commented and suggested, it's also likely that my friend Cancer may come and visit you or your loved ones suddenly one day. Instead of being sadden at the time, why not we try to be pre-prepared for it. Why can't we live the fullest of today, everyday like this is the LAST day of our life?

Good health and God bless!