Eau Claire Wisconsin Real Estate Blog: Turns out the possible cure for cancer is Down Syndrome

I saw this article last night and I was trying to be very careful with the title. I realize that cancer is a very serious thing and I know that almost every other day someone is trumpeting this or that as the next cure. I realize it’s not as simple as that and I am certainly not trying to get anyone’s hopes up. If anything this might be a long way off but it certainly does look like one of many new things that could be very promising. The premise of the story is that for years scientists have known there is a link between Down Syndrome and cancer because for some reason people with Down Syndrome had an abnormally low rate of cancer. That’s good news but as the title of this post suggests the bad news is of course the Down Syndrome.

You can read the article here which I found rather interesting.

On a side note I had a pretty scary moment just a few months ago. I didn’t really say much about this to anyone outside of the people I know the most. I had a bone scan done to find out what is wrong with my back which it turns out is a torn disc and a bone defect. I had an epidural done on Monday to take care of some of the pain. Fun stuff. Anyways the bone scan turned up what is known as an uptake. I tell you what that seems like an innocuous word but when you find out what it means it sucks. I don’t have cancer or least they don’t think I do (they don’t know for sure but it’s only a small chance) but anyways they tell me I more or less might have cancer. It was pretty devastating. I will also say right now that I can’t honestly know what it’s like to have cancer. I don’t have cancer and thinking you might have cancer is not the same as having it.

Regardless it sucks anytime someone mentions that word and I don’t think I was ready for it especially since they were trying to figure out what is wrong with my back. It really sucks when they say the good news is you have a bone defect the bad news is you might have cancer. What they found was a tumor in the marrow in my leg. The first thing I did of course was Google what “uptake” was to find out what the heck is wrong with my leg. What I read didn’t exactly make me feel better. Basically if it was cancer the treatment was to cut my leg off. That’s if it doesn’t spread through your blood stream which is highly likely. Again I don’t know what this is like and I can’t imagine how terrible it must be if you had to go through this. But thinking about it sucks.

The other thing that sucks is that even though it’s only a small chance I might have this type of cancer the only way to find out is to drill a large hole in my bone. This in turn weakens the bone and pretty much breaks your leg. The risk of cancer is so low that they typically don’t do a biopsy like this unless they see the tumor grow. But having a tumor in your leg sucks and having it checked again in a bit here will get me thinking about this again.

One thing I can say for sure that really sucks about this is the waiting. I had to wait 2 full weeks to find out if I had serious cancer or not. Of course not having it is much better than that but waiting is hard. What didn’t make me feel better was them saying to me “you’re lucky. There are people who have to wait longer than 2 weeks for treatment and they have cancer!” I don’t know what to think about our health care but I do know that if I didn’t have insurance none of what is wrong with me would have been treated. Our system is broke and as great as the treatments are that are available they aren’t available to everyone...

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