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12-FEB-2003

030212.JPG

At the end of my 2nd cycle of dose-escalated BEACOPP.

CT-scans showed that my tumour had grown instead of shrinked.
Also, what the MDs had thought was a shawdow from pneumonia on the Thorax-X-ray really was a fat new tumour, sitting within my left lung.

The BEACOPP protocol had not worked...

As an interesting side note: from this day on, the CRP-value could be used like a tumour marker. It seems that the tumour growing inside my left lung caused an inflammation, which caused the CRP to rise.

When this photo was taken, my CRP was something like 100 (normal interval is something like 0-9).

FujiFilm FinePix F601Z
1/60s f/2.8 at 9.4mm iso200 with Flash full exif

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