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Welcome! May 23, 2011 we found out my brother Joe had stage 4 cancerous tumors filling his abdominal cavity. He is receiving treatment at the University of MN and at Mayo Hospital. Recently he had surgery and they were able to mostly remove the tumor. However, he still has a long journey to being completely cancer free. Please keep him and our family in your prayers. We have been so blessed by all the care and prayers we have received. As hard as this is we know that the Lord has a plan and is working powerfully through Joe and this situation. The Lord is good and he is faithful!

~Sharon Hall

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June 13, 2013 4:44pm

We have the preliminary results from Joe's scan and it appears that while there hasn't been a lot of change there are two new small spots of cancer on Joe's liver and some minimal growth. Of course this is not good, but a lot better than it could of been so we're thankful for that. What it means is Joe will switch up treatment again. He will be starting on a fairly new drug which he takes at home and will ideally have pretty minimal side effects. As long as the growth has been so slight they opted to do a less intense treatment in hopes that Joe can still carry on feeling pretty good and being active. You can pray that, indeed, he does tolerate this new treatment well and that it is effective in killing the cancer. We will probably be re-scanning in another two months and reevaluating from there. Thanks for all your prayers and support as we move into yet another experimental stage of this treatment process.

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