Hey folks, Calum here.

Dan’s in surgery as we speak. He went in around 8:30 this morning. We are looking at 10-14 hours of surgery depending on a variety of factors.

We’ll be updating you as often as possible on this site and on Facebook at “Fan Dan’s Plan to Ban Cancer, Man.” This will depend on how often we get updates  (every few hours or so) and the accessibility of the wonky, wavery wi-fi signal here at UCSF. I’m here with Kaki, Dillon, Dan’s mom, and his brother Jimmy.

Here’s what we know so far:

We got two brief updates from the O.R. about three and five hours in, both saying, “Dan’s doing great.”

We just (5:15pm) received a brief but happy voicemail message from Dr. Kirkwood. The tumor has been succesfully removed! There remain another four or so hours of surgery, but this is good news. Please keep sending those positive thoughts. And leave Dan a note here (in the “Guest Book” section) or on his Fan Dan’s Plan to Ban Cancer, Man Facebook page. I know he’ll appreciate it when he returns to what he calls consciousness. 😉