May 15, 2017
Elizabeth Cook
KPIX Channel Five
News
855 Battery Street
San Francisco,
California 94111
Reference: Your Mothers
Miraculous Lung Cancer Story
Dear Elizabeth:
Your story last night on the 6 o’clock
news really touched my heart for a personal reason. It was such a fluke of good
luck that your mother’s broken arm lead to a CT scan that detected lung cancer
in its earliest stages.
I have a somewhat similar story. In
2015, I had violent pain in my lower abdomen. I went to the emergency room. A
CT scan was done. A small spot was detected on one of my lungs by accident. I
was instructed to come back one year later for another CT scan. The original spot
was gone. But a node was detected higher up in my lung. There was a strong
suspicion of the onset of lung cancer. A great specialist from Kaiser was not
sure that it was malignant. Every six months I do a CT scan as a follow-up.
People who don’t smoke die of lung
cancer quite often. The mayor of Milbrae died of lung cancer in her mid-50’s.
One of my wife’s medical colleagues also died of lung cancer in her 50’s. My
primary care physician has a father one year older than me. He has stage-four
lung cancer after a life free from smoking. He is only alive now due to an experimental
drug from UCSF. All these people had access to some of the best medical care on
earth.
What a beautiful Mother’s Day Story that you
gave us!
With kindest
regards,
-Jack Waldbewohner
Cc; file
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