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looking for some info..
Hello, I just had a friend diagnosed with Peritoneal Carcinomatosis... Looking for some information on this type of cancer. Thank you! rose
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Good news!
(Let me try this again!) I may be taking my last carbo treatment for this round. It is for a first recurrance that did not respond to Doxil. I have been on chemo since March! I get it in the hospital overnite as I am allergic to it and they desensitize me. The Dr. may want to give me a couple more treatments to give it a…
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Confused - CA125 increased after debulking
First, I'd like to say how much help this group has already been and thank you! My Mom, a young 71, was diagnosed with peritoneal cancer last month (Nov. 2012). Her CA125 was 5,338 November 24, 2012. The doctor first suspected ovarian cancer, but after surgery to remove as much of the cancer has possible, he said the…
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Confused - CA125 increased after debulking
First, I'd like to say how much help this group has already been and thank you! My Mom, a young 71, was diagnosed with peritoneal cancer last month (Nov. 2012). Her CA125 was 5,338 November 24, 2012. The doctor first suspected ovarian cancer, but after surgery to remove as much of the cancer has possible, he said the…
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Confused - CA125 increased after debulking
First, I'd like to say how much help this group has already been and thank you! My Mom, a young 71, was diagnosed with peritoneal cancer last month (Nov. 2012). Her CA125 was 5,338 November 24, 2012. The doctor first suspected ovarian cancer, but after surgery to remove as much of the cancer has possible, he said the…
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Anyone! Please help me! I am alone!
Hi ladies. I'm so sorry for each of your diagnosis! I am sick to my stomach with worry and am just dreading the worst. Last year i went to my gyn complaining something was just not right. Dull constant aches in my left side, extreme tiredness, loss of weight, terrible pain during I-C. He did a pelvic MRI ( I am allergic to…
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My Doxil (Caelyx) Results
Hi All I saw my Oncologist yesterday having completed 3 rounds of this chemo. I was to have had Round 4 today but as my CA125 jumped up from 322 to 425 over this last month it is now off for me. I am quietly relieved as side effects were so awful! Burning hands and feet which blistered terribly and required me to visit my…
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PMP - debulking, omentum,peritoneum,chemo
I was recently diagnosed with PMP (pseudomyxoma peritonei). Only one or two people in a million get this. It basically is a tumor on the appendix that creates a jelly in the abdomen. The tumor can spread to other organs and tissues. I had the debulking and the HIPEC treatment. *Regular chemo does NOT work on this…
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Etopocide
Has anyone been on this chemo? I have just started it in tablet form. I would like to know: ~ How sucessful it is? ~ What the nside effects are? ~ Do you loose your hair? Tina xxx
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The number I was waiting for.
Just now getting my next-to-last taxol & carboplatin. I was just told that my CA125 marker is 79. Finally broke 100! And a far cry from when I was diagnosed in July with a CA125 score of 2,738. The bonus was my dear sweet PA said I look wonderful. I know she meant it sincerely--if I say so myself, I am looking well these…
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ASCITES
Just a quck post about my ascities experience. After being told that my CT showed a good result my tummy began to grow.I thought I was imagining it and put it down to me putting on weight. But no, it was hard and me sides were bulging. Saw my oncologist and it was confirmed that I had ascites and I was admitted as an…
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Wondering how to always WANT to keep going?
See ladies, my mom is now checking in on this website so i wish u would take her under ur wings as much as possibe. She probably reads everything and than writes nothing. Anyway, she is MARYTESS. Thats her and my daughters name put together. Anyway, she is getting the doxil. After the second one, she went in for the third…