Monday, November 25, 2019

METASTASIS: NOT A CHEERFUL SUBJECT


AT THE SONNY BONO BIRD REFUGE

This is not a lighthearted blog.  Read it anyway.

Linda, my beautiful wife, died of ovarian cancer.  However, it was not the primary tumor that killed her; it was a metastasis – probably in the brain.  Such is the case with most fatal tumors.  This link gives you valuable insight into how metastasis works.  Simplistically, metastasis occurs when a bit of the primary tumor breaks off and is transported by the blood or lymph system to a place with the correct “micro-environment” where it can lodge and grow.  Much research has and is being done on this question of micro-environment – and how to make it less hospitable.  This link concerns brain cancer and is a bit technical in places – but you will persevere. 



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