Cancer Survivors Network

... myself. One of my favourite sayings is "surviving survival ain't easy" . Many is the time that I have thought of opting out but I ... to them than to say someone 6 years into the fight with melanoma. In talking to some of my other long time NED survivors (5 plus ...

Forum topic - greta - 10/27/2010 - 9:09pm - 71 comments

... visiting this web site. I had (stupidly) tried to look up survival stats for people with my diagnosis, and saw frightening, depressing ... BOT in Jan. of 2004. At that time, I also had a malignant melanoma on my shoulder and a squamous cell carcinoma on my forehead (I later ...

Forum topic - janenz00 - 12/15/2012 - 1:44am - 14 comments

... and late 90's measured tumor recurrence and not long-term survival. His studies convincingly showed there was no survival benefit or ... as to prevent breast cancer, lung cancer and malignant melanoma from spreading to the brain. About 200,000 people receive the ...

Forum topic - gdpawel - 10/02/2009 - 9:36pm - 7 comments

... believe an anticancer diet makes a huge difference to our survival. Sugar and Cancer: Is There a Connection? The facts about ... a bit and then discovered that a friend's husband, who has melanoma, was using them too. I started taking them a month after my chemo ...

Forum topic - Rewriter - 09/15/2011 - 7:32pm - 107 comments

... about it. My wife, Cheryl, was diagnosed with Stage IV Melanoma Cancer on 11/30/2009. It appears to have started in her lung, and ... drugs, and I don't do that. Forty years is a pretty good survival rate, amirite? This thing started with a swelling in my armpit in ...

Forum topic - NailBitingHusband - 01/13/2010 - 8:14pm - 59 comments

... by stromal cells of their host organ. For example, Melanoma cells are closely related to CNS cells. Breast cancer cells more ... the cerebellum in 15%, and both in 28%. Median overall survival was 62.3 months (95% CI 51.2 to 73.3). The median time after ...

Forum topic - gdpawel - 11/24/2012 - 2:24am - 32 comments

... for about an hour once (skin graft following radical melanoma surgery--30 years ago, not to worry). Also, I have many, many ... my elderly parents that I have a much better chance of survival than when I got the melanoma surgery. Implants and the need for ...

Forum topic - Silver_Mama - 11/12/2012 - 4:49am - 8 comments

... with a pinch of bicarb. Saving our precious energy for survival and our spirit is my goal, so don't get caught up in the arguments if ... are ALL DIFFERENT. Colon cancer is not the same as melanoma cancer, the chemo's the protocol's the surgeries are ALL DIFFERENT, ...

Forum topic - tachilders - 10/23/2012 - 7:45pm - 59 comments

... on both sides of my family, colorectal, prostate, lung, melanoma but I am the first with bc that I know of. I'm the only one ... at age 80 but it was not related to her bc. Her long survival rate from bc gave me a lot of hope as she survied with only a ...

Forum topic - susie09 - 11/09/2011 - 1:03pm - 66 comments

... sarcoma which was treated with excision, the conjunctival melanoma in situ, which I am on chemo for until November, and last week this ... are all different and also that the 10 years is the median survival time. At least 1/2 the people do better and my oncologist says he ...

Forum topic - Jeen - 10/07/2012 - 11:52pm - 22 comments