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Hugh Jackman Undergoes Biopsies for Cancer Scare
YouTuber Hank Green is facing a cancer battle.
The member of writer John Green has been diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, helium shared successful a May 19 YouTube video. Hodgkin's lymphoma is simply a crab strain that impacts the body's lymphatic system, resulting in swollen lymph nodes, according to the Mayo Clinic.
"I noticed that my lymph nodes were big," Hank recalled. "I talked to my doctor. She says, 'Probably nothing, volition nonstop you successful for an ultrasound.' Got an ultrasound. The tech in the ultrasound country was like, 'I'm gonna spell get a doctor.' And that's not what you privation to person happen."
After a doc recommended Hank acquisition a biopsy, the world of concern came into focus.
"It's a crab of the lymphatic system, and bully quality is it's thing called Hodgkin's lymphoma," Hank said. "It's 1 of the astir treatable cancers. It responds precise good to treatment. The extremity is cure. The process to get determination is reasonably good known, if unpleasant."
As for however precocious the crab is, Hank explained that it seemed "likely that we caught excavation early," though helium is waiting for further evaluation. In the video's description, helium noted that the "cancer has not dispersed anyplace from its archetypal determination successful my near armpit/chest area, which is precise bully news."
"I don't consciousness immoderate symptoms of this," helium added. "I consciousness fine. I don't adjacent truly consciousness fatigued. It's hard to tell. I consciousness stressed, but the infinitesimal I commencement chemo, I'm going to consciousness a batch of symptoms from that."
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As Hank prepares to acquisition crab treatment, he's unsure of however overmuch YouTube contented he'll proceed to create.
"I bash privation immoderate reasons to get retired of furniture and I'm going to effort and acceptable immoderate of those up for me," helium shared, "but I'm overmuch much disquieted astir maine putting excessively overmuch unit connected maine to bash things oregon interest astir things."
John mightiness besides temporarily measurement distant from the brothers' shared YouTube channel, but Hank reassured fans that determination are nary factual plans conscionable yet.
"We'll play it by ear. We'll fig it retired arsenic we spell 1 time astatine a time," Hank said. "And I proceed to beryllium extraordinarily grateful for truthful galore of the things successful my life, including this."
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