After reading of your family, I can understand that you are still searching
for answers. Unfortunately, I don't have them and I would have to say that
no one else does either... I believe with all my heart that there are
environmental factors to disease. Are theses all that there is... no, I
don't believe so. I am afraid that the answers will not be forthcoming
quickly...
So that leaves me responding to you knowing that you are left with your own
heart and mind to work through the loss of your family.. You are a
psychologist yes, but death of your father and mother is not an diagnosis by
which you can treat yourself.. You, like all of us are very human and it
hurts. Diseases also make us angry, for we don't want to lose anyone that
we love from one and we certainly don't want to lose ourself.
Yet here we are in 1999 and disease is running rampant and hearts are being
broken everyday.. So the news is not in the heartbreak, but in the healing
and the living fully of each day. There are many cancering survivors on
this forum and let me tell you that anyone who is alive today is a cancering
survivor.. As to tomorrow, that will take care of itself when it becomes
today..
I pray that you will be able to seek the comfort in your heart for the loss
of your parents, do what you can to keep yourself healthy and should you
desire to become an advocate of the environment, I am sure that they need
good volunteers... God Bless you and stay around here and you will see what
surviving and living each day is about... Carla
-----Original Message-----
From: tullio cittarellli <tullioci@webmail.com.au>
To: mol-cancer@lists.meds.com <mol-cancer@lists.meds.com>
Date: Thursday, February 11, 1999 8:18 AM
Subject: [MOL] Family Renal Cell Carcinoma
>
>My father was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma (Grawitz Tumour) in Feb
>1998 and died in May that year. In July 1998 my mother was also diagnosed
>with a Grawitz Tumour and then had a radical nephretomy soon after and it
is
>yet unclear as to whether she has a distant spread to a lung. As my parents
>were naturally not blood related, it this just an amazing coincidence that
>an elderly married couple concurrently develop the same tumour on the same
>organ? Although impossible to verify, what about environmental or toxic
>factors ? Both my parents shared some of the known risk factors for this
>type of tumour, such as obesity (both, although mild to moderate), smoking
>(my father) and hypertension (my mother) - furthermore they have been
>residing for 15 years near an industrial zone with petroluem and
>pharmoceutical factories near by. Myself at age 9 suffered from a hung left
>kidney which was rectified by a nephropecty (? I think this is the term).
In
>short, there is certainly some form of 'bad karma' regarding 'kidneys' in
my
>family which has alerted my to periodic examination for any masses that may
>be developing in myself. However, I am more concerned about the phenomenal
>occurence of this tumour in both my parents - As a psychologist, I am aware
>of complicated bereavement in a surviving partner who are known to develop
>symptoms similar to the deceased partner - but I cannot accept this notion
>as a plausable explain for something as a complex as cancer. Can any
readers
>please respond to my story and offer any comments which could even slightly
>demystify this unfortunate and distressing family health problem.
>
>many thanks Tullio
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