Professor Layton's Medical Mystery
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Dear god,Greg Tito said:
the black ice queen of Gnyth'gor is gone for like, what, a month?, and already the fortress is falling apart from the inside. Whats next, you'll start letting Jim videotape himself with blowup dolls? Get it together Sir Titos (he who is known as the black knight of the bile bear), or else your faithless imps just might free her from your dank prison to rule over these lands once more.
Kind Regards,
Grand Inquisitor Thiosk
This is too out of character to be a believable joke; Professor Layton would never look unhappy at being offered a puzzle.
Confirm by biopsy in pretty much all cases except a straight leukemia. A mass alone only indicates the presence of a tumor. Elevated white cell counts are very non-specific, mammography has a very high false positive rate (it's a design feature - better to check out anything than let breast cancer slip by), a lung mass could be quite a few things, and even seeing a tumor on MRI or CT does not confirm it's cancer.Yopaz said:
Not that benign tumors can't kill you too.
And it turns out the next Jumble says, "It is an unresectable small cell carcinoma I'm so sorry the prognosis is dismal you are just boned." Takes an hour to solve, but really helped Prof Layton take the news well.
I suspected biopsy might be needed for confirmation regardless, but I wasn't sure, thanks for confirming that for me. I didn't know the details about mammography though, I've just heard that it's quite inaccurate, but not the details.thedoclc said:
Being corrected can be fun if you learn something from it.
The answer is why he was unhappy. After all this is the Professor we're talking about, he got that shit solved 2 seconds after he was given it...OtherSideofSky said:
This reminds me of 'Professor Layton and the Malignant Growth', although in that one, it turns out he's been carrying a massive tumour under his hat for years. I can't post it here, because it's a bit sweary, but it can be found in several episodes on YouTube.
Seriously, Doc? Nothing about how his eyes are two black, soulless dots? Or could you not get that in a Jumble solution?
They also have something really wrong with their ribs. In order for the clavicles to be straight like that, the projector has to be slanted up. Those ribs are WAY to curvy.
The lungs look clear though... must my microscopic.
The lungs look clear though... must my microscopic.
I came hoping to see a post like this.AliasBot said:
I am not disappointed XD.
I chose to be pleasantly surprised!Greg Tito said:
Poor Professor Layton (Professor of what? The same field as Robert Langdon?). He can't make it one day without encountering a puzzle. But wait, is it possible he suffers from a rare mental disorder that WON'T allow him to read anything straightforward, thus resorting to wordplay to get any information?
...Um, given 'Dead Grey Art Day,' is this comic telling us something about results of the 'elaborate quest' from what was 'supposed to be a routine medical exam'? Should I be worried?
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For a Second I thought it was going to come up with "Big Arse Tumors".
...because the Black spot on the lung is big... And probably a tumor.
The "You Have Cancer" bit was surprisingly mundane. Why Do I always expect the most complicated answer first, and the most commonly expected answers second?
...because the Black spot on the lung is big... And probably a tumor.
The "You Have Cancer" bit was surprisingly mundane. Why Do I always expect the most complicated answer first, and the most commonly expected answers second?