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by Christopher Graham The other big part of the treatment for peritoneal mesothelioma, in addition to trying to remove all of the big, bulky disease…
by Christopher Graham The operation itself lasted about 12 hours. They were expecting it to take more like 8 hours, but apparently there was a…
by Christopher Graham Eventually, my surgeon came in the room. It was actually the first time I’d seen him wearing scrubs. In clinic, he’s quite…
by Christopher Graham Your day gets going pretty early when you’re the first case on the schedule. Surgery usually tries to start their first case…
by Christopher Graham My parents, sister, and my nephew came up a few days before the surgery. We had, essentially, a long weekend to visit…
by Christopher Graham Well, a couple days later the biopsy results finally came back. The differential diagnosis for the way the stuff looked under the…
by Christopher Graham So I went to the ER, and everyone agreed I needed a CT scan. Despite having read thousands of them in my…
by Christopher Graham They have a system to estimate the extent of disease, called the peritoneal carcinomatosis index (PCI). It’s a scale that goes from…
by Christopher Graham My now-wife and I went home to New Orleans for Mardi Gras in the spring of 2016, right at the beginning of…
I remember the exact moment when, I believe, my cancer first heralded itself – the time I barfed during my call shift. It was the…
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