Hello all..took dad up to James Cancer Hospital at OSU this morning.to talk to the surgeon about the tumor on dads kidney that He removed on Oct 17th 2008..It ...was....cancer..it is called Cystic Cancer of the kidney..Dr.said that the test proved that He got it ....all out...and dads has a ...95% chance of it ...never ....coming back...He was very happy and said dad was doing good and he wanted to see dad back there in May 2009 to do a ultra sound to make sure dads 2/3rd of his left kidney is working right and if any tumors or cells have come back..Then after that they want to keep seeing him and testing just to make sure dad is ...cancer...free..they also did Labwork today.i told dad on the drive home..that even though i was scared for him on oct 17th , that i was soooo thankful he pushed to get it taken care of..dad is still tired and working on getting his strength back. once again, i CANT...thank you all enough for all of the loving words and thoughts, and prayers..love ya all..your friend......rose