Lori was diagnosed with metastatic adenocarcinoma of unknown primary in November 2002 on her twenty seventh birthday. Lori blogs too sexy for my hair. She writes about her experiences with cancer and also how it wrecks havoc on her mental state.

I know what its like to be diagnosed with cancer on your birthday but I really can't imagine not knowing what kind of cancer I have.

Cancer of an unknown primary basically means that they can't tell what part of the body it originated. When a pathologist looks at cancer cells under the microscope they can usually tell if it's a breast cell that is cancerous or lung cell etc. Sometimes the cancer cells don't resemble any normal cells of the body. They are too primitive to identify.

I'm not sure how they begin to treat an unknown primary since there are different chemotherapy drugs given depending on where the cancer originated. Do the doctors just guess and try different regimens?

Lori keeps her sense of humor even though she struggles with the side effects of chemotherapy on a constant basis. She refers to her cancer as ad-duh-no-carcinoma.

Lori is one tough chic!