Lately, I think I’ve short of time. So many cases that I have to handle, to be examined first by me and later on be processed by my technician which at last I have to look at the microscope to see and finally reveal the diagnoses.

The first case was a radical mastectomy from a 37 years old woman with breast cancer. One week ago this patient was done a biopsy on a 6 centimeters lump of her right breast, which already diagnosed with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma. The specimen was measured 15x 15x 3 cm, with nipple and skin attached on it. I have to see diligently, if all the margins of the operation : cranial, caudal, medial, lateral and base of the section were all free from tumor cells. So did to the possibility of vascular invasion or tumor emboli and lymph nodes dissected from her axilla or her right armpit. I found there were massive vascular invasions and infiltration of tumor cells to all the twelve lymphnodes of her right armpit.

The second case was a huge ovary cancer of a 43 years old woman. The specimen measured 16x 9x 7 cm, with a hard portion almost to the entire specimen. The outer surface was glistening, greyish-white. On slicing, I found an enormous greywhitish fleshy mass with rubber to hard consistency which later on I’ve made a diagnosis of Solid Embryonal Carcinoma of the Ovary. Under light  microscope the morphology was almost like seminoma, but without lymphocytes infiltration in the stroma. I think the malignancy of this Solid Embryonal Carcinoma of the ovary is moderate. This patient has a bleak prognosis, because there’s already metastases to the peritoneum with adhesions to her bowels and many nodules on her liver..

The third case was a huge fibroid tumor of the womb or Benign Uterine Leiomyoma . The specimen measured 16 centimeters in diameter. On cut surfaces it looked fleshy fresh with  bleeding spots. This specimen from a woman, 42 years of age. Imagine how big was her stomach before the operation  taken to throw out her solid benign tumor of her womb which she has had for 3 years’ time.

The fourth case was a male patient, 56 years of age with a lump on his thyroid gland left lobus measuring 4 centimeters in diameter. This lump was known only 3 months before visiting my laboratory. Rubber consistency and a bit painful on palpation. He admitted that he got fever and difficulty in swallowing and feels short of breath. I’ve done a fine needle aspiration biopsy to his lump. And ultimately my diagnosis was Subacute Thyroiditis or de Quevain’s Thyroiditis. Lucky for him that his tumor need not to be operated, and will be fine and back to normal within 2-3 weeks time with only antibiotic and steroid tappering off therapy.

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Saya tergelitik untuk menulis setelah melihat begitu banyak contoh profil wajah dari para pesohor /selebriti yang ada didunia, termasuk di Indonesia.

Mari kita lihat wajah Keanu Reeves, blasteran China dan Kaukasus. Terlihat didominasi gene Kaukasus : badan tinggi, kulit cerah bukan kekuningan dan mata relatif normal tidak terlihat lipatan Mongolia sebagaimana ciri khas etnis China yang bermata sipit.

Selanjutnya Alicia Keys, Beyonce, Presiden terpilih Barack Obama, Mariah Carey, dan penyanyi pria berambut kribo Lenny Kravitz.  Mereka semuanya adalah blasteran antara etnis Kaukasus dan ras Afrika atau Niger. Lihatlah masing-masing dari mereka : sangat jelas dominasi ras Afrika pada wajah mereka yang mengalahkan sifat genetik Kaukasus yang mereka miliki. Rambut khas agak keriting, kulit coklat agak gelap dan warna iris mata yang coklat gelap atau hitam, meski tampak sedikit ke-Kaukasusannya dari bentuk hidung bangir Beyonce dan Alicia Keys serta Mariah Carey.

Khusus President-elect Obama, dia mewarisi seluruh profil ayahnya yang berasal dari Kenya. Sedikitpun tidak terlihat wajah Anne, ibunya yang bule bermata biru. Namun, lihatlah Maya Soetoro, adik Obama dari ayah Indonesia. Ternyata sifat genetik Anne, ibunya yang Kaukasia lebih dominan dibandingkan pak Soetoro yang bergenetik Indonesia, maka pandanglah wajah Maya : profil wajah bule, mata kebiruan, kulit sangat cerah dan postur tubuhnya juga tinggi besar, bongsor seperti ras Kaukasus pada umumnya . 

Di Indonesia banyak contoh dominasi phenotipik Kaukasus pada wajah beberapa artis blasteran, seperti Alexandra Gottardo, Cinta Laura, Riyanti Cartwright, Cathy Sharon, Catherine Wilson, Andrew White, Collins Stuart dan Mike Lewis. 

Alexandra Gottardo, ayahnya seorang pria Italia dan ibunya wanita asal Malang. Maka lihatlah hidung, mata dan bibirnya yang tampak mewarisi profil anggun seorang bangsawan dari kebanyakan pria Italia dengan rambut yang  berwarna gelap. Sebuah perpaduan yang sangat indah, kulit tidak terlalu pucat dengan alis mata yang lebat, mata yang abu-abu tidak terlalu biru serta rambut coklat-kehitaman.

Catherine Wilson menurut pandangan saya malah hampir persis seperti bule asli. Gene Indonesianya tidak tampak, kecuali jika dia berbicara bahasa Indonesia yang sangat lancar dan tidak cadel sama sekali. Tutup mata anda dan dengarkan dia berbicara, maka kita tidak akan membayangkan wajahnya yang bule bener-bener.

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