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Strategies & Market Trends : Joe Copia's daytrades/investments and thoughts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joe Copia who wrote (24139)	2/8/2002 2:51:44 PM
From: LANCE B	Respond to of 25711

JOE-i will add your dad's name into my prayers at night and wish that all goes well..i know there is a lot of struggles along the way,and your dads morale and strength will be tested ,but also will be the key to his health.. please send him all my best from the berger family...

To: Joe Copia who wrote (24139)	2/8/2002 3:42:17 PM
From: Tamer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25711

Joe, I am normally a lurker but since I've followed your posts for so long I feel like I know you and thought I would post this to you. I lost my brother-in-law five years ago. He went through the whole leukemia treatment process twice against astronomical odds and beat it twice, though the second time he succumbed to a common virus that a person with a stronger immune system could have fought off. In both cases he had been given less than 10% odds. What I learned and want to share with you is this: different hospitals have radically different treatment processes for the same disease. You have to aggressively seek out the current information and compare the treatments. My example is this: my brother-in-law was fortunate to have good access to information. His first round was at Dana Farber in Boston. They had a traditional bone marrow transplant approach to his disease. When he was rediagnosed six years later he compared Dana Farber to Fred Huchinson in Seattle. He visited and interviewed doctors and considered approaches at each. DF still had the bone marrow approach. Fred Hutchinson did T-cell transplants for the same condition. It was interesting to find the differences in points of view between the two treatment centers. He chose Fred Hutch because of the treatment and the doctors. The T-cell transplant went very well and he was close to getting out of the hospital when the virus hit. It was a common virus and had nothing to do with his disease. I write all this only to encourage you to turn your many talents and tremendous energy towards educating yourself on behalf of your father. He will need help in gathering information and making decisions. Don't trust your doctor to do this for you, to a large extent you have to do it for yourself. You have many contacts here on SI and I'll bet that if you shake the trees a bit, quite a few knowledgeable people will step forward with pieces to the puzzle. Also, if you want to read a really good book that validates what I have written, read Lance Armstrong's "Its not About the Bike." Have your dad read it. It is a testimony to staying positive and aggressive. I will say a prayer for you and your family and thanks for your posts on SI. Several have turned out to be good leads for me. Mike