The late Jake Seliger and his widow Bess blogged at length about their experience navigating the medical system after his squamous cell cancer diagnosis. That was in 2024/25 though.

jakeseliger.com bessstillman.substack.com

This is fantastic. Thanks for posting it, JJ. There's a very strong chance you'll save n>0 lives by posting this.

Minor addition: When you talk to someone who has undergone the surgery, try to find someone that's a similar age and in similar shape to you, otherwise you may get wildly varying answers.

You'll respond, experience and heal from a surgery quite differently at 40 vs 50.

Extremely sorry you had to go through this.

My only submission will be to consider India, which is fast becoming a hub for medical tourism. You can get any test you want and meet specialists in hours, not even days.

Thanks! I'm saving it for hopefully never. I hope your treatment is/was successful!

Frankly, I have the impression that doctors put as little care towards their patients’ health as us programmers do towards our software.

have you tried PNC-27 peptide? It just came on my radar a few months ago from a peptide manufacturer I deal with and it looks promising for multiple tumor cell types, although human testing is lacking. I would try it and do testing to see if it actually reduces tumor sizes as it claims in animal testing.