[willowbrook] Fwd: UPDATE ON BOB ( cindy brown's dad)

[Judy Neergaard]

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> From: "Bob Hofer" <bobhofer at charter.net>
> Date: Tue Jun 15, 2004  01:44:07 PM US/Central
> To: "Wilma Hofer" <wilmahofer at hotmail.com>
> Subject: UPDATE ON BOB
>
> We saw the oncologist yesterday.  We now wait some more. 
>  
> There was an international conference of oncologists last week.  Our 
> doc was there as well as the #1 guy from Vanderbilt.  There were 
> studies to show that patients with lung cancer who receive chemo are no 
> better in the long run than those who do not receive it....except in a 
> study still in research and not available to anyone else.  That study 
> shows - after many, many tests whether the individual's genes and that 
> particular cancer gene is susceptible to treatment with chemo.  That 
> will probably become available down the road after we are long dead and 
> gone.  Last night Shirley and I were discussing how treatment has 
> changed for various cancers within the past 10 years.
>  
> Bob was excited that he probably won't have to have chemo.  Radiation 
> is not indicated since the resecting margins at surgery were clean.  
> However, I was aghast!  My thinking was do something for him!!  It was 
> a day of confusion and mixed emotions!
>  
> Our doctor is going to talk further with the doc at Vanderbilt and will 
> get back to us.  PLEASE PRAY THAT GOD WILL GUIDE THEM TO THE RIGHT 
> DECISION ABOUT TREATMENT. 
>  
> Here I am asking you to pray for God's will; then I wonder if this is 
> an answer to my prayers for God's healing for Bob and "please God, take 
> away the suffering".  And we all know that chemo does have side effects.
>  
> Please keep both of us in your prayers.
>  
> In His love,
> Wilma