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Peace Bro - and God Speed

It is with great sadness that we announce that Anthony Muoio, a.k.a Prawker; Friend and valued member of this community has passed away from cancer. He was 17.

 

He had been ill for some time, and although he had multiple surgeries to treat the rare CASTLE cancer, and was declared cancer-free in december it returned, and yesterday morning the battle was finally lost.

 

He will be sorely missed by us all here at InsanelyMac, and our thoughts go out to his family and all those who knew him in person.

 

Goodbye, Prawker, you were taken from us far too soon.

I never really knew him, but having cancer run in my family like crazy...

the last person in my family cancer took was my grandmother.

the doctors said she was cancer free after breast cancer turned out later on they missed some when taking the cancer out, it then spread throughout her whole body and became serious bone cancer and it killed her.

RIP... so sad at such a young age. May God rest his soul and be with his family while they mourn.

sorry for such a long reply and not even knowing him. In all honesty it really saddens me to see this. Only 17, having his whole life ahead of him. I hope no one thinks I'm over reacting by making this so long and such. I will pray for his family.

Never spoke to the guy but read his posts. Always sad news when someone people care for dies, especially so young.

 

Respect to his family and friends.

 

Would be nice for his relatives if someone who knows his family could send them the link of this thread.

 

Rest Peacefully Mate.

Here's a link to a case report that briefly discusses CASTLE tumor. That's the problem with this type of malignancy, lots of case reports, but not much info on it since it's so rare.

 

http://www.ajnr.org/cgi/reprint/19/7/1225.pdf

 

It is derived of cells of the thymus, the organ that aids in T-cell maturation (immune cells that kill bad things that lies right above your heart) or cells from branchial pouches (now we're talking embryology here, and I don't remember what is derived from what pouch or cleft) that retain the ability to differentiate into thymic cell lines. It can lie anywhere along the embrylogical decent of the thymus gland. It can be a slow growing tumor that can recur after long intervals. It is usually, but not always a diagnosis of exclusion (i.e. everything else is ruled out first). Treatment usually consists of surgical excision with or without radiation therapy.

 

I'll try and ask my staff tomorrow and look up more articles to find out more info...

Try http://www.cancer.gov/, it was always a good resource for me through my dad's illness. As one of the guys here said though, it is some sort of mutation of thyroid cancer.

 

Hope that helps.

 

Thanks a lot and this absolutely will help me to know more about cancer.:wacko:

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