Dear Sally,
Two primary tumors are not common. They are indeed rare but do occur.
But, many of those can be treated with similar type drugs as the tumors
are affected through the same immune system. That is my understanding.
The way they tell it is a primary and not a metastasis is the in the
differencial of the blood cells when biopsies are taken.
I came in late on this conversation. Does charlie have two primaries?
God Bless
marty
Charlie T wrote:
>
> I can ask this of Dr. Khuri tomorrow, but until then here's today's
> dumb question....
>
> How can you have a second primary tumor? It seems like an oxymoron,
> especially given it is not ajacent to the first one we knew as
> "primary"
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