Wednesday, August 27, 2008 Houston, TX

MD ANDERSON: Today Stan had blood test and another chest x-ray to see if anything has changed since the last one. He has a cat scan tomorrow morning - have to be there at 7:10! There is good news - they are not ruling out surgery yet. Say some people have same thing as Stan and sometimes cancer - sometimes not. The doctor is inclined to think the biopsy (from here) of the lymph is right and there is not cancer - just swollen. He may do another needle biopsy. They don't know yet. Sometimes they can shrink the tumor in lymph and if it shrinks enough they can sometimes do surgery to remove the cancer. They are concerned about how he'd be able to breath if he does have surgery so he will see a pulmonary specialist. They want to see if he can breath well with 1 lung and part of another and not have to have oxygen.