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A gracious end to Webb-site

The coming end of Webb-site 12 February 2025 Dear Readers, When I disclosed my metastatic prostate cancer in Jun-2020, I didn't expect to live as long as I now have - the 5-year survival (which I am now approaching) is about 30%. However, after exhausting 4 lines of therapy and resorting to experimental treatments that are only available overseas, I have now reached the point where outcomes are measured in months rather than years and my symptoms and side-effects are making it harder to function.

However, after exhausting 4 lines of therapy and resorting to experimental treatments that are only available overseas, I have now reached the point where outcomes are measured in months rather than years and my symptoms and side-effects are making it harder to function. I hope to reach 60 in August and all I want for my birthday is another one, but before I become more dysfunctional, I need to make plans for the orderly conclusion of this pro bono, loss-making work rather than leave managing it as a burden for my family. After an initial flurry of interest, a handful of diligent volunteers continue with this work, but it is clear to me that this is not a viable way to expand the data collection effort to other datasets that we manually maintain.

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