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Friday, July 01, 2005

CROSS YOUR FINGERS

The surgery is over and done and now all we can do is wait. If the surgeons did their job properly it's now up to Xiao Li and his will to live. I hope his will to live is strong.

The cancer is non-small cell, which is good news, if there can be any good news about lung cancer. If they got all the tumors and the cancer hasn't spread to places they haven't found, the odds of Li living at least another five years are pretty good. But what's needed now is follow-on chemo treatment and that may be a problem over there. The doctors there may not be up to snuff on the latest treatments and the drugs currently being used very successfully in the US may not be available.

All we can do is push them, but even that may not be enough. Let's hope it is.

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