A Season in Hell
“This was a relief, but it also unnerved me. It meant that the first two doses had damaged my kidneys, perhaps irreparably. Nobody told me. That month, I met the radiologist Bruce Minsky, to whom I expressed my worries. He told me that only rarely can the whole protocol be given to any patient, and that the fluorouracil is if anything more potent than the more toxic drug. He insisted that radiation plus chemo should knock out any cancer that was left—he knew the tumor had disappeared. He also sa...id I was a rarity, for in his many years of practice he had given radiation to only one or two people whose cancers had metastasized.
I did not know why my oncologist chose to break the pattern with me—he never spoke of it, and I forgot to ask him until 1997, when I ran across Bruce’s statement in my notes. It was as I had guessed. An article in a medical journal I had read stated that a few patients with esophageal cancer survived more than a year when they received what the article called extremely severe treatment.MoreLess
I did not know why my oncologist chose to break the pattern with me—he never spoke of it, and I forgot to ask him until 1997, when I ran across Bruce’s statement in my notes. It was as I had guessed. An article in a medical journal I had read stated that a few patients with esophageal cancer survived more than a year when they received what the article called extremely severe treatment.MoreLess
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