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Any idea what cancer she had and what treatment? My mom is currently battling stage 4 metastatic neuroendocrine primary lung cancer atypical carcinoid and being treated with Lutathera, a nuclear injection that targets the somatostatin receptor on the cancer cells and hopefully shrinks, slows, or kills them off. The treatment is 1 injection every 2 months over the course of 8 months. So 4 total injections. She has already been through 4 rounds of chemotherapy and targeted radiation. She has many tumors at this point but the largest sounded similar to your moms, upper left lung, the size of a golf ball. Partially collapsed her left lung. She's being treated at Sloan Kettering in NYC.


I'll find out. How's your mum doing?


Hey did you end up going back to school for a computer science degree or are you self taught?


I'm self taught, but my job is becoming more computer science focused every day. I have a lot to catch up on and study in the coming year to keep up to bridge what I already know from building applications to the computer science concepts I lack.


Levi's


Weird but it just hit the top of hacker news today... someone else posted the link! Maybe it was my headline?


Truly Incredible


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