Cancer Survivors Network

... that patients benefit both in terms of response and survival from drugs and drug combinations found to be 'active' in functional ... activity for both compounds. For the MEK/ERK inhibitor, melanoma appeared to be a favored clinical target. This is highly consistent ...

Forum topic - gdpawel - 04/29/2011 - 1:39pm - 15 comments

... any of us recognize or believe it or not. Either way, survival rates are improving, early detection is improving, and people affected ... colon, rectum, kidney, ovary, thyroid, pancreas, and skin melanoma. Familial cancer is not nearly as common as spontaneous cancer. It is ...

Forum topic - Buckwirth - 03/25/2011 - 12:37am - 31 comments

... location. REMOVE THE CANCER! it's your best chance of survival. Google Dr. Thomas Rice at the Cleveland Clinic. Your not too far ...

Forum topic - Gene R. - 03/08/2011 - 11:55am - 4 comments

... won his battle with Lung cancer. He had a 25% chance of survival and he won. Today he finds out that the Lung Cancer has spread to his ...

Forum topic - evon - 03/06/2011 - 2:38am - 3 comments

... friends, and my dreams, upside down. He told me on average survival rate is about 18 months for people that choose not to be radically ...

Forum topic - Luvphotog68 - 02/23/2011 - 12:23pm - 8 comments

... accident) for children under the age of 14. However, survival rates for pediatric cancer have drastically improved in the past few ... as gene therapy that teaches the immune system to fight melanoma (and can be watched in real time). The new drug Crizotinib is being ...

Forum topic - lizzydavis - 02/23/2011 - 11:08am - 34 comments

... in the 50 to 60% of people with RCC, myself included whose survival rate is close to 100%. Hopefully the other issues resolve themselves. ... anther from acute myeloblastic leukemia, a sister with melanoma (still living) and then a few breast cancers thrown in. OH JOY! The ...

Forum topic - autumn4 - 10/28/2010 - 3:11pm - 19 comments

... news. This afternoon I was told that the 5 year survival rate is 30-50% with treatment!! I was devastated. How does everyone ... this shocking diagnosis. My husband is a stage 4 melanoma patient and tells me that I will calm down and feel differently in a ...

Forum topic - Cancer11 - 02/12/2011 - 3:14am - 20 comments

... going to a teaching hospital it is your best chance for survival. this will be a hard time for you and a good team of support will be ... from a mole on his upper chest that was malignant stage 4 melanoma cancer 3 years earlier. However we were never told it was stage 4. ...

Forum topic - fammem - 08/14/2009 - 10:00am - 23 comments

Hello everyone My husband was just diagnosed with esophageal cancer(adenocarcinoma)with metastasis. We go for the Pet scan tomorrow. He is 38 years young and the most wonderful man I have ever known. He doesn't meet any of the risk factors. No gerd ...

Forum topic - MelanieL - 12/12/2010 - 11:32pm - 34 comments