Just finished my last bag of chemicals for round two of chemo therapy. That means I am halfway done with my treatments. It feels good.
The other bit good news is that Dr. said my tumor marker in my recent blood test were way down to undetectable levels, meaning that the tumor producing these aberrant proteins had been badly dammaged, i.e., the Chemo Therapy is working well. It is actually a pregnancy hormone that I was producing because my germ cells (the precursors to sperm cells) had started behaving like fertilize eggs instead of make sperm. The test results indicate that my tumor is mostly made up of the equivalent of placental cells, creating HCG, a female pregnancy hormone. 5 or 6 weeks ago if i'd bought and peed on a CVS pregnancy test I would have tested positive as pregnant, now, according to my blood test, I would not.
Biology is fascinating.
whoa! that is wicked.
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