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1 there, office visit.
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2 Q March 25th, there has been no nausea,
3 vomiting or abdominal pain.
4 Does that indicate to you in March of 1981
5 he was not feeling pain?
6 A Yes.
7 Q Anything else you want to read?
8 A Well, I will point out that theabdominal
9 circumference is 109 centimeters which is
10 approximately 40-some inches of fluid.
11 And he has a mass, a nodule which is one and
12 a half centimeters which is about this size mass which
13 you can feel in his abdomen.
14 And they have started him on a diuretic, on
15 a fluid pill to try to reduce the amount of fluid in
16 his abdomen.
17 Q Given that, they go into the next paragraph
18 and say, despite the absence of treatment, because he
19 was no longer on chemotherapy, March 25, was he?
20 Mr. Vandergucht's disease seems very
21 indolent at this point.