From: Denise Green <GreenD@GLPS.K12.MI.US>
To: "Mailto:vianet"@i-2000.com <"Mailto:vianet"@i-2000.com>
Subject: Leiomyo
Date: Thursday, January 08, 1998 2:35 PM

Dear Kent,

I was very excited to find your letter. My sister -in-law Marylee has Leiomyosarcoma . She had a hysterectomy 3 years ago and the report came back that she had leiomyo, so she went through radiation. This past November she had a routine chest X-Ray and it showed a growth on her lung. Evidently she had been spitting up blood, She initially had a bioposy and the report came back that leiomyo cells were found in her phlem. On December 9th she under went surgery where they removed a cancerous tumor the size of a large orange, and the upper lobe of her lung. She is to begin chemo on the 16 th , she says that they are going to put her in the hospital for 4-5 days then home for 3 weeks and continue this rotation . When she is done with her months of chemo they are then going to do radiation.
My real concern is that the doctors may be putting her through the treatments with no real valid chance of them helping her. I have read all of the letters on this site and have gotten the idea that Leiomyosarcoma is not helped through chemo or radiatioin. Is this your opinion?????
Please give me any information you possibly can. MaryLee is the most wonderful sister, aunt, friend so iI hate to see her be so sick due to chemo if it won,t benefit her. Many of us in the family are wondering if this type of treatment might just make her life less than any benefit.


Thank you for anythiung you can possibly do for us.

Denise Green

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