研究癌症新药的科学家得了癌症怎么办（第2/3页）
In addition to standard chemo I am actively researching clinical trials．Multiple tumor types have had incredible medical advances in the past few years – I believe firmly that they will eventually find tricks that work for colon cancer as well．For those of you in oncology/medical research – please send me a heads-up anytime you hear anything promising in clinical trials for CRC！I hope I inspire you to focus your research on CRC （hint hint J）．I'll also be continuing all my complimentary therapies – I do believe they are a part of why I feel so great & why the tumors are growing so slowing，so slowly it took 10 months to diagnose them even with constant scans.
除去标准的化疗以外，我也在积极寻找新的临床实验药品。过去几年，针对多种癌症都有很多有效的新药出现。我相信对直肠癌也会有更好的药物。如果你是在做抗癌药物研究或者是肿瘤科的医生，听到任何新的有希望的治疗直肠癌的临床实验，请务必告诉我。我希望这封信能让更多人专注研究直肠癌。我会继续接受常规治疗，因为我相信过去的常规治疗让我身体保持得很好，并且肿瘤长得很慢。慢到我的肿瘤要花10个月才能被CT确诊。
I remain incredibly Faithful and believe one way or another everything will work out OK – my new diagnosis hasn't shaken that a bit．My goal is to be here for my kids as long as possible （ideally for decades！），using my cancer to show them to never give up Hope （both spiritually and in terms of medical advances！），to never stop fighting for what's important and show them to never be bitter by what life throws your way．I want them to learn the same lesson my parents pummeled into me as a kid – instead of focusing on disappointing news，instead focus on all the incredibly good things we have been blessed to enjoy．For example – I already had Stage Ⅳ cancer （w/o knowing it） at Amelie & my Father-Daughter School Dance last Fall – the cancer did not take away the fact we had an awesome night together neither one of us will ever forget！With Eleni – we called her the miracle baby because hers was a very rough pregnancy in multiple ways – I had metastatic cancer the day she was born （w/o knowing it） how can I be bitter when I have had the joy of her in my life？Eleni never gave up fighting to stay alive under tough medical odds & neither will I now！
我依然保持着极度坚定的信念：无论发生了什么，一切都会好的！癌症复发的诊断并没有动摇我的这个信念：我的目标是尽量久地陪着我的孩子们，我希望能陪几十年！我要用我和癌症斗争的故事向他们诠释永远不要放弃希望，包括精神上的坚定，和对医学进步的信念。不放弃努力，不因为生命中的困苦而失去乐观精神。我想让她们学到我的父母在我小时候教给我的道理：不要总是想着那些让人沮丧的消息，而要把注意力放在那些无比美好，值得感激的事物上举个例子——去年我和大女儿在学校和她一起跳“父亲和女儿”的舞蹈时我其实已经得了4级晚期癌症 ，但我当时并不知道，癌症本身并没能阻止我们在一起度过了那个美好的难以忘记的夜晚。小女儿是一个奇迹宝宝，因为她妈妈在怀她的时候出了各种状况，险象环生。在她出生的时候我的癌症事实上已经转移了，但我当时并不知道。小女儿给我的生命带来了无限的快乐，我有什么要难过的呢？她从来没有放弃抗争，奇迹般地活了下来。我今天也不会！
There is an anecdote of a young daughter asking her Dad what he planned to do after they found out he had Stage IV cancer．His reply：I plan on reading you your bedtime book tonight and waking up tomorrow morning like I always do！Life in all its fun goes on.
我想给大家讲一个小故事：有一个小女孩问她的爸爸，当他知道自己得了4级晚期癌症后打算做些什么。她爸爸的回答是：我打算和往常一样，在今晚你睡觉前给你读一个故事，然后明天早上和往常一样醒来！无论发生什么，生活依然要继续，并且要充满乐趣。
I don't plan on giving any more regular updates by mass e-mail but please do feel free to contact me anytime & ask anything you want – I seriously love hearing from people！Also feel free to forward this e-mail，I know I have accidently missed people that have been very supportive the past 2 years.
我不打算以后用群发邮件的方式给大家更新我的状况。但是欢迎大家任何时候跟我联系，想问我什么都行——我是真的很高兴收到你们的信！也欢迎大家转发这封邮件，我可能不小心漏掉了一些在过去两年中非常支持我的朋友。
I wanted to close again with the picture of me，Amelie & Eleni taken on our June 4th celebration of life．We're going to fight to keep on celebrating life together for a long more time．And I am still celebrating being a Cancer Survivor – being one starts the minute you first hear your diagnosis！