Re: March Data

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Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:52:43 -0500
From: Michael Sallman <msallman@pro-ns.net>
To: Tass Mailing List <tass@mail.alembic.net>
Subject: Re: March Data

The March data is loaded in the database.

Mike

Tass Mailing List wrote:
> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:32:02 -0500
> From: Thomas F. Droege <droege@fastmail.fm>
> To: tass@tass-survey.org
> Subject: March Data
>
> Not much, only one night, but the March 2007 data is up on dan as the
> contents of directory /home/tom/data/tp19
>
> Usually it is not worth trying to run the early months of the year.  I
> missed a couple of days in March because I was too sick, but I am better
> now and will run tonight.
>
> Last Wednesday I went to the oncologist and the news was good.  My PSA
> is down to 1982.1 from the high several months ago of 4533.6.  This is
> not supposed to happen.  When it went down from 4533.6 to 3653.2 last
> month the doctor mumbled something about a mini-miracle.  This month he
> mentioned discussing my case with University experts.  Let's hope I can
> continue to amuse the experts.
>
> In the reference data column is <OR=4.0.  This means that anything over
> 4 is to be considered bad for a PSA.  I am amused that the medical labs
> can measure something in the blood to 5 significant figures.  I don't
> know how to measure anything that accurately and I have been in the
> measurement biz for over 50 years.  Shucks, and I was planning to go for
> the record which I understand is around 20,000.
>
> The upshot of all this is that I might be around for a while.  If so, we
> will just keep taking data until we can't keep any camera going.  We
> might even get tom4 and tom5 working since they are nearly complete.
>
> Tom Droege