From: LaDonna Backmeyer <gwynn@revealed.net>

> To: kent@via-media.com

> Cc: gwynn@revealed.net

> Subject: renal leiomyosarcoma

> Date: Tuesday, April 01, 1997 12:30 AM

>

> My name is LaDonna Backmeyer. I have renal leiomyosarcoma, stage IV B.

> I had a left radical nephrectomy in November, '95, followed by six

> cycles of adriamycin/ifosfamide, which brought the numerous metastases

> in my lungs to two non-growing mets. However, I now have two or three

> newly seen lung metastases and it seems as though I now have a

> retroperitoneal tumor and another tumor on my skull. I plan to have

> more surgeries and I hope to take part in a vaccine therapy clinical

> study or a gene therapy clinical study. I am in the process of writing

> and editing a leiomyosarcoma newsletter.