Now if there isn't a huge amount of irony in quoting Gilda in this situation, then I don't know what the word means. Wasn't the character Emily Litell? Anyway, congrats again. I'm sure Rosanna-Rosanna-Danna sends along her congrats as well.

Sent by Tom Clarke | 6:40 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Hallelujia!

Sent by Katie | 7:07 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Dear Leroy:
Because of today's news my heart is smiling.

Sent by Harriet | 7:10 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Hey, I'm off to chemo out here in SF, what great news to carry in with me. Grace abounds. Have a great weekend.

Sent by Joan Schatz | 7:26 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Leroy,
Yesterday when I read your post at this time I cried, I'm sorry, I just couldn't find the words to say.
Today, my first thought when I read your news and with the image of this all being a roller coaster ride, all I could think was, "raise your arms and scream, whe-e-e-e-e-e-e!!"
(This is something my kids always want me to do when we ride roller coasters! You raise your arms on the descent...supposed to make it more fun??!!)
Anyway, it may sound stupid but that's what I thought of!
Great news Leroy...great news...thank you!

Sent by Rhonda | 7:29 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Woo Hoo!!! How awesome is that?! Great news!! Sure you were stressed yesterday, but WOW. Happy, happy news prevails!! Stay strong! Sandy Lathe

Sent by Sandy Lathe | 8:01 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Wow, a reprieve! Awesome! Grab the dramamine!

Sent by Marilyn | 8:04 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Sent by Martha | 8:04 AM ET | 03-30-2007

That's just awesome--the best news! I am so happy for you. I never cared for roller coasters, but this ride sounds like a good one.

Sent by BP | 8:06 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Leroy,
I'm thrilled to hear you had a false positive. Speaking as a statistician, that's the type of error we can live with. What a ride though. Enjoy your weekend.

Sent by Lisa | 8:06 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Excellent Exellent news! Maybe all those heartfelt prayers and well wishes expressed yesterday did the trick. Keep on Leroy.

Sent by Jessie | 8:18 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Wow, you are on a roller coaster ride! I'm happy to hear today's good news! Congratulations! Have a fantastic weekend!

Sent by A.T. | 8:20 AM ET | 03-30-2007

God Bless your doctors for checking and rechecking all of your scans. Hopefully all of us are fortunate enough to receive the quality care that you are getting. Doctors save our lives! Keep up the fight......

Sent by David G. | 8:23 AM ET | 03-30-2007

LEROY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i will be dancing THE LEROY HAPPY DANCE ALL DAY TODAY!!!!!see...all those positive thoughts came to a micro miracle in your brain!!!!!!!!! your doctors' error made my weekend!!!!! yaaaaaaaaaaahoooooooooo!
gosh...i am beginning to feel "bi polar" with all this emotion! (just kidding) :)

Sent by marianne dalton | 8:26 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Dear Leroy

I'm so glad you don't have a brain tumor after all. I can only imagine what this roller coaster feels like.

All the best, Jane

Sent by Jane Weldon | 9:12 AM ET | 03-30-2007

I was almost afraid to log on today, what great news!

Sent by Chris | 9:13 AM ET | 03-30-2007

That's great news Leroy. Here's hoping and praying that the good news continues. Thanks for sharing it with us. Have a restful weekend.

Sent by Jeff K | 9:21 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Leroy, What wonderful news! I'm so happy for you and I can't get over how cool you remain no matter what the news is. Ruth White

Sent by Ruth White | 9:35 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Leroy--I haven't read your post in a couple of days, so when I signed on this morning and read yesterday's post, I felt so badly for you--another tumor so quickly. But then-----I read the good news for today. I'm so happy for you!!! I know you have the strength to get through the bad, but I'm glad that you can rest for now.

I don't have cancer, but my mother is a breast cancer survivor. She's 7 years post diagnosis. She had her annual with her oncologist this week, and things look good, but I still find myself anxious even after 7 years of good reports. I know she would handle a return of the cancer with strength. In fact, I would be the one having the difficulty with it, not her. You and my mother impress me and inspire me with your fortitude and wonderful attitudes. Thank you!

Sent by Tina Barbour | 9:40 AM ET | 03-30-2007

What great news! Have a great weekend!

Sent by marilyn | 9:44 AM ET | 03-30-2007

BOY HOWDY!
That is terrific news--enjoy enjoy enjoy! So much better than the opposite order.

Sent by Robin | 9:47 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving person!

Sent by Don Winslow | 9:50 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Fantastic - easy come & definately easy go
:-)

Sent by Julian | 10:03 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Awesome early April Fools!

Sent by Art Johnston | 10:05 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Well well well.... I am just thrilled for you !!!!!!!! Go out and celebrate!!!!! I would like to hear what a celebration is for you- is it gathering people, raising a toast, or fixing yourself a cup of tea and just thinking of how you can continue to peacefully drink tea. Or is it a trip to an art museum or some concert. I'd be interested to know.

Sent by Linda Hilsen | 10:11 AM ET | 03-30-2007

HOORAY!!!!! I want to jump up and down and clap like a three year old. I will also be rushing to phone my mom, who reads your blog a few times a week. Yesterday, I didn't speak to her because the news about Elizabeth Edwards and Tony Snow upset her so much.

You know, Gilda Radner titled her book describing her own ordeal with ovarian cancer as "It's Aways Something."

Sent by Sheara | 10:14 AM ET | 03-30-2007

That's absolutely the best news we can get today!!! Now you can have a nice weekend without worrying about the next test! We all love you and thank you for sharing all the news with us! Our thoughts and prayers remain with you always.

Sent by Margo Gerber | 10:14 AM ET | 03-30-2007

HAPPY, HAPPY, JOY, JOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sent by Patti | 10:18 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Just wonderful news, Leroy! I had a similar but different experience. After a liver biopsy, I was told that yes the mass the CT showed was cancer. Three days later I was told that no, it was not. "Never mind"! A fun three days to say the least. However being the logical animal that I am, I now figured that at least one of the reports was wrong. So I took myself to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. They determined that the first report had been correct and that I had a liver metastasis ...my first met. Thanks to M.D. Anderson for keeping me alive for the past 5 years since then (surgery, RFAs, Chemo)and thanks to me for taking charge of my situation. Had I trusted the second report, the tumor would soon not have been operable and I would not be on the green side of the grass today. Our thoughts are with you for sure Leroy.

Sent by Ferd Moyse III | 10:30 AM ET | 03-30-2007

A similar thing happened to me - PET scan showed something, then wait and got CAT scan which was fine. GOD answered our prayers. Enjoy your good news. I am so very happy for you - your joy is all of ours who write to you.

Sent by Vicki | 10:38 AM ET | 03-30-2007

A case where "some news" was actually "good news"! Here's hoping for more good news well into the futures....

http://vampdaddy.blogspot.com

Sent by Vampdaddy | 10:47 AM ET | 03-30-2007

zippidydoodah!!! how I love good news...celebrate with fine food and drink! enjoy your weekend!

Sent by Karen | 10:48 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Terrific news! I was almost afraid to read today's entry, but I'm glad I did. Congrats!!

Sent by Bruce | 10:54 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Leroy,

What a great news. Congratulations! I had tears in my eyes yesterday and today, but today it's tears of joy.
Have a great weekend.

Tatiana

Sent by Tatiana | 11:04 AM ET | 03-30-2007

"and the beat goes on, and the beat goes on..." celebrate, enjoy, breathe deeply! Life is good.

Sent by karil | 11:31 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Leroy,

The vagaries of fate are not to be believed! You get all geared up for another fight and your opponent cancels. I'm so glad for you and hope you do something really fun to celebrate this reprieve.

Sent by Diana Kitch | 11:34 AM ET | 03-30-2007

That's so wonderful! It's the kind of news every cancer patient would like to hear.
Hope you can go celebrate.

Sent by Maggie | 11:36 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Yesterday's post made me start to have an inkling of what cancer patients go through. So glad to hear the good news. Hope you get to enjoy some Spring this weekend!

Sent by Linda | 11:55 AM ET | 03-30-2007

Leroy,

I do not post comments very often, but I faithfully read your blog. You bring insight, clarity, perspective, and humor to the world of cancer. Even though I am curently cancer-free, my confidence has been shaken recently with the high profile cases of recurrance...but today...you give me hope and I am so very happy for you. Thank you for continuing to have the courage to face each day and share it with all of us. You are providing something wonderful to all of us that now walk the "Cancer Walk". Good for you! Enjoy the weekend!

Sent by Maria | 12:45 PM ET | 03-30-2007

Dear Leroy, I'd been working out of town, so read BOTH your messages just now (bad news/good news)and can only begin to guess what adjustments you are making right now. I want to go get some M & M's and crunch each one to bits as a symbolic thank-you to all systems inside your body, and all the treatments offered by the docs that have chewed up or burned out or otherwise evaporated your tumors. When you get your sea legs (after this week's downs and ups) I hope you'll find a favorite way to celebrate in the crisp spring air.

Sent by Sarah, cheering you onward from Virginia | 12:49 PM ET | 03-30-2007

What wonderful news!Never say never. I'm not a particularly religious person, but in the past few years I've had several experiences in which things happened (reprieves came) that had seemed impossible. Whether it was all the prayers or good thoughts or just amazing luck, who knows? It's made me believe anything is possible.

Sent by Doris | 1:00 PM ET | 03-30-2007

So glad your news was good today. As someone in the UK who came across your blog goodness knows how it has been a moving experience keeping with you as time goes by and you write so honestly about your feelings. I have not been through that door into the place where you go alone for treatment, I am not someone with cancer but I cannot thank you enough for the insight into that world beyond diagnosis. Should it be somewhere I one day reside your blog will be with me.

Sent by Amanda Oppe | 1:15 PM ET | 03-30-2007

Fabulous, really fabulous! I just had a 2 yr PET/CT and MRI in Feb. and those little words "no evidence of disease" are as powerful as any drug. Best to you.

Sent by Jenene Koegel | 1:23 PM ET | 03-30-2007

THAT'S GREAT NEWS! God is smiling on you.

You taught me a valid lesson about scans and MRI's today.

Sent by Laura | 1:54 PM ET | 03-30-2007

Joy unspeakable!

Sent by Mary | 2:07 PM ET | 03-30-2007

Leroy, my friend Linda and I have been praying fervently for you for the last several months. Yesterdays news hit us very hard. You, see Linda is where you are right now. No active tumors seen. Everything you have been writing speaks so well to the realities of what cancer patients are going through. Leroy, God loves you and obviously has a plan for your life because you are a walking miracle. We will continue our prayers for you. We serve an awesome God.

Sent by Debbie | 2:18 PM ET | 03-30-2007

Woo! This calls for an extra large cheeseburger and hot fudge sundae celebration! Rock on, Leroy. Show us the horns.
crow

Sent by crow | 2:42 PM ET | 03-30-2007

No one likes mistakes, boy I'll take these mistakes anytime. Great and I am happy for you.

Sent by Roger C | 2:47 PM ET | 03-30-2007

Excellent...as you were!

jj

Sent by Joan Jones | 3:39 PM ET | 03-30-2007

The doctor's can call it a mistake, but I feel it is nothing short of a miracle!

Congratulations!

Sent by AS | 3:56 PM ET | 03-30-2007

Dear Leroy Great news! It's friday night, pizza and beer for everyone!

Sent by Ron | 3:58 PM ET | 03-30-2007

That rollercoaster can really whip you around. I got similar news. I had a recurrance of my pancreatic cancer in October and by December (with no treatment)I was "dancing with NED." No one understands this, least of all me. If any of you have heard of such a thing, please let me know. Anyway, instead of being overjoyed at the prospect of living longer, I feel down Alice's rabbit, into depression. I just couldn't take all the changes in direction. I would just get my head around one thing only to find that everything was different. I actually went onto Hospice in November and left them just this week. So, now it is back to my oncologist and I suppose more CT scans. I am just trying to take life one day at a time. Life is beginning to look a little better to me now as I get used to the idea of being here after all, but how will I handle whatever new news comes my way?

Sent by Stephanie Dornbrook | 4:16 PM ET | 03-30-2007

Tears of happiness for you. Enjoy every Sandwich.

Sent by Janis | 4:28 PM ET | 03-30-2007

Very very happy for you!!!

Sent by Chandana | 5:01 PM ET | 03-30-2007

Magnifico, fantastico!!!! Any language you say it, it is amazing news!!!

Sent by Blanca | 5:05 PM ET | 03-30-2007

Roller Coaster without the thrill but with plenty of adrenaline. Hope April treats you as well or better than March.

Sent by bill kennedy | 6:42 PM ET | 03-30-2007

Leroy-- Congrats on your good news today, & hoping all your news from here on out will be good. I go in Monday for my pet & ct scans & Tuesday my MRI hoping my news matches yours. Be well, do good work & keep in touch.

Sent by Dave S. | 8:33 PM ET | 03-30-2007

Perhaps, the last but not least of the messages. What eactly did your doc say again?
Is this REAL TIME or are we dreaming? If we are dreaming....let's sleep a bit longer. If this is REAL TIME, then let's all wake up and celebrate with an M&M!

Sent by SusanP | 11:41 PM ET | 03-30-2007

Enjoy life my friend!

Sent by Alice | 12:15 AM ET | 03-31-2007

Leroy and everybody else, reading the good news filled me with happiness, and everybody's comments have made me realize of the wonderful work that Leroy has made for all of us.

You have created a little family outside of each and every one of our families, a place where we find refuge, where we share joy, fear, advise, tears and laughter. It makes me immensely happy to hear that this time it was just a scare, and I wish you the best in your next check up.

Thank you Leroy, for creating this wonderful place for all of us.

Live Strong.

Sent by Juan Pablo Martinez | 12:25 AM ET | 03-31-2007

Hi, just found your site; I can relate; I have metastatic colon cancer in my liver and have been on chemotherapy for two years now...was first discovered 4 years ago and had surgery...Will keep you in my prayers and will try and get on this site every day...and also read through the archives as well...Take care, Susie

Sent by Elsie Susie Hager | 2:47 AM ET | 03-31-2007

Great news--I have this image of the many people who read your blog all riding in the roller coaster car behind you and letting out a happy yell as you hit the bottom of the drop and zoom up again.

Sent by NR | 8:05 AM ET | 03-31-2007

Leroy, you share the bad news with us, but thank you for sharing the good news as well.
I feel quite dizzy with this about turn.
Wishing you a great weekend.

Sent by JJ | 8:36 AM ET | 03-31-2007

I am so happy for you as well. It is so fortunate you got the bad news - good news situation. I had it the opposite way this fall. My lung cancer with mets to the bones had responded well to chemo from March to August. My August PET/CT scan showed no active cancer in lungs and down to a few mild spots in my spine. My next PET and CT was in November. When we saw the onco for the results, he only had the CT report which he said was great. Still not active cancer. I went out for lunch and then came back for my Zometa bone medicine. By then he had called the radiologist and learned that the cancer had spread in my bones to all my ribs, pelvis and left femur. Real bummer. But as has been noted, it doesn't seem to hit as hard second time you hear it. So it is on the next treatment.
I do appreciate your blog and the comments from our fellow travelers.

Sent by John | 9:23 AM ET | 03-31-2007

Awesome. Prayers answered.

Sent by Geoff | 9:52 AM ET | 03-31-2007

Read your blog in reverse order today...I'm glad I did. Our best.

Sent by Nikki | 12:53 PM ET | 03-31-2007

Wow - great news! A wonderful way to celebrate spring with new hope.

Sent by Marie | 1:04 PM ET | 03-31-2007

Ups and downs. That's the life of a cancer survivor. We live by those scan results - then come to realize, as you have, that the interpretation of these highly scientific scans still has an element of art to it.

I had a similar experience with a CT scan that picked up a spot on my lung (the docs were looking for a recurrence of my NHL, not lung cancer). Several visits later, they concluded that the shadow on the scan was a normal structure where two lobes of the lung come together, not a malignancy.

As advanced as today's diagnostic scans are, interpreting them is still a matter of seeing "through a glass darkly," in some cases. I'm so glad your news, Leroy - at this latest juncture in your road as a patient - is good.

http://www.cewilton.blogspot.com

Sent by Carl Wilton | 2:24 PM ET | 03-31-2007

The news is fantastic, Leroy and long may it continue!

Sent by Maris | 3:35 PM ET | 03-31-2007

Great news, Leroy! That's such a relief to hear.

Sent by Adam | 4:24 PM ET | 03-31-2007

The well-known story of the Chinese farmer comes to mind -- I won't repeat it here (easy to find all over the web), but the essence is that when the farmer had what appeared to be bad luck, all his neighbors came over and expressed intense sorrow, and he said, "We shall see." And when his luck appeared to turn, they came over to congratulate him, and he said only, "We shall see." And so on and so forth. I imagine this was his way of dealing with that roller coaster that you (and so many others) are now on.
I hope you can find some sort of peace and steadiness amidst what must be such a lurching and uncertain path: some recognition that the "bad news" may not necessarily be bad, and the "good news" not necessarily good.
I am experiencing a similar course of events with my mother, who has metastatic uterine cancer, and I try every day to find that balance, that steadiness, but it eludes me (and her too, I am sure). I remind myself of the story of the farmer, but I don't know if I can ever live it. I thank you for your openness about the day-to-day details of living with this disease, and wish you equanimity through all sorts of luck, both good and bad.

Sent by Obos | 5:16 PM ET | 03-31-2007

Man, go out and do something Spring-y to celebrate. I am thrilled for you!

Sent by Teri | 5:25 PM ET | 03-31-2007

Very happy news - again! Congratulations!

Sent by Lilly T. | 8:09 PM ET | 03-31-2007

Thank you for taking us all on the "ride" with you, Mr. Sievers ... your insightful, honest, and wry diary is worth reading, and the triumphs (as well as the trials) along the way knit your community of readers closer.

I learn something about myself, and the preciousness of simply being alive, when I log on and check in on you ... I am grateful for that.

Sent by L.A. Eno | 9:25 PM ET | 03-31-2007

Wow, yay! I heard you on Minnesota Public Radio yesterday morning, I believe, and you were talking about having no tumors currently, and I hadn't seen this post yet, and I was kind of scratching my head wondering if this apparently live call-in program was taped or something. (I hadn't heard the beginning.)

What brilliant news to hear. All good news is welcomed enthusiastically. Go you!

Sent by Linda | 11:13 PM ET | 03-31-2007

Whew! I take back my profanity, exclaimed when you shared the bad news with us a few days ago. I hope that I never have to break it out again for the bad news. It's a hell of a roller-coaster ride and I'm sure glad that it turned out OK. Time for that celebratory burger and don't forget about that trip to Hawaii.

Sent by Bob Maimone | 12:25 AM ET | 04-01-2007

Leroy, thanks so much for sharing your experience. Even though it's been 12-years since I was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer, the recent news about Edwards and Snow sent a cold chill through me. About 18 months after my initial diagnosis, I had a scare with a chest xray that looked like mets. The PET and CAT scans were inconclusive, so I pushed for a bone biopsy. I was sitting on a plane at LaGuardia waiting to take off for Boston when my doctor called to tell me it wasn't mets. I'll never forget that moment. Sometimes riding the roller coaster is completely silent, and all you can hear is your heart beating.

Sent by Sue | 10:16 AM ET | 04-01-2007

to Leroy. Glad to read that the news is good for you. You mentioned Gilda's sayings. Are you a member of a Gilda's Club? I am ,it it a wonderful,helpful organization. Be well.

Sent by Kurt | 2:28 PM ET | 04-01-2007

Leroy,
I just caught up on the blog for the last 2 days. I have had a few things come up. I was actually recording a voiceover for Morning Edition this weekend at my studio. If I had read Friday's post, I would have told you that it was probably scar tissue. Melody had the same thing happen to her with the gamma knife procedure. Except (and this is the pisser), they didn't even explore the possibility it was scar tissue, so they gamma knifed her again. After they did that, they, unfortunately, did more harm and no good. After the second procedure, they had to go in, operate, and undo the damage they did from gamma knifing scar tissue. It took precious time away from us (she had to be in rehab again for a month because of the surgery to undo the damage...i.e. swelling from the radiation the gamma knife does afterwards, learning motor skills again etc). This happened 2.5 months before she passed.
I am sorry for not reading and writing earlier...you would have had a better weekend knowing what I knew, and I wouldn't have sent you a bill either!
I am glad that your doctors are better at troubleshooting than hers was!
So for you...No harm, no foul! Coolness!

Sent by Michael (Caregiver Survivor) Chicago, IL | 1:14 PM ET | 04-02-2007

I'm praying for you.

God bless you, in Jesus' name

Edwin

Sent by edwin crayton | 8:11 PM ET | 04-02-2007

Leroy,
Reading your news just now made me so happy. Keep doing what you're doing and inspiring all of us.

Sent by rhonda | 9:31 PM ET | 04-04-2007

I'm waiting news of lung mass and am very afraid. Loved hearing your good news. I pray for you and hope you me also, thanks.

Sent by Lisa Jourdan | 11:48 PM ET | 04-12-2007

I just listened to the radio program yesterday for the first time. Leroy was on giving an update on his blog. I am not familiar with the details of his situation but I would like to be as I have a brain tumor. I am taking one tablet of tremador daily. I am also not one to read up on the tumor. I prefer not to frighten myself anymore than necessary. I went today to have my 3 month MRI with my doctors visit day after tomorrow. Always an uneasy day or two.

Sent by Patti | 2:23 PM ET | 04-17-2007

Leroy, no active cancer, no new tumors. That news is absolutely fantastic!!!!! After all that you have been through. I simply can't imagine the emotions you are feeling. I don't know that I would have had your tenacity to keep fighting.

Thank you for your blog posts. I became a cancer patient in August of last year when my Dr. told me my liver was in advanced failure along with inoperable and untreatable liver cancer. The best they can do is make me comfortable. I am told I have roughly 1.5 years left. Your blogs have helped me understand my struggle with cancer when no one else can explain. I rejoice vicariously in your present victory; it gives me reason for joy when I can't find it anywhere else. Keep charging Tiger!

Sent by Randal Gray | 1:58 PM ET | 04-18-2007

Leroy, we have similar cases. I have lund cancer and have had 14 metaststic brain lesions -- one treated with surgery and all 14 with Gamma Knife. I've been alive 2 yrs 3 months. Do you feel you've had any side effects from Gamma Knife?

Sent by Brian | 1:22 PM ET | 05-08-2007