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Posted 2021-01-31T02:21:00Z

January 2021 update

Friends,

Things took an unfortunate turn on my personal health front: my rectal cancer has spread to my lungs. A few months ago we found a tumor on my liver and had it surgically removed. Now recent scans and a biopsy have identified that the rectal cancer has spread to my lungs. I’ve had a cough for a while and some shortness of breath when exercising. I’ve had suspicious nodules in my lungs for years, and the docs always assumed they were melanoma. It’s possible they’ve always been rectal cancer, but we don’t know, and they could be both. Either way, we need to focus on the rectal cancer now. Given how many nodules there are, surgery is not an option.[...]