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Michelle and i are praying for him and rosalyn. we are all pulling for you, jimmy. joining me now with more on his illness is dr. natalie azart. can you walk us through the diagnosis and how serious it is? sure. so basically it appears they were evaluating a nodule or lump or lesion in the liver and when they did a biopsy of that, they determined that it was in fact a melanoma and what made that interesting for people to understand, we nomly think of medical though ma melanoma as originating on the skip and traveling from there. but 15% to 20% it can actually the primary is not of found or they don t know where the primary skin cancer was. but it s already metastasized or traveled from the site of origin at the time of diagnosis. so they did the liver biopsbiop scanned help with a pet ct to see where the tumor may have ....
Underwent something called a pet ct which does the job of trying to figure out whether the tumor has spread. thus far the only spots that were seen were four spots on the brain which i should add were considered rather small enough that he might be able to get very localized radiation therapy, rather than getting the whole brain radiated. in october he ll turn 91. how does that factor in how does that factor in to the treatment? that s a great question. oncologists generally think the tolerance of the drug is pretty good. it can have side effects, joint pain and nausea and rash and diarrhea which are very uncomfortable. for older people in general, tolerating something like a chemotherapy is more difficult. but it is not supposed to suppress the immune system so much as other kinds. ....