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Peritoneal Cancer
Archives for December 2013
Discussion List
Can we change our fate?
My beautiful mom passed away last night from PPC. I am stunned with grief as well as fear. I feel like there is nothing we can do to catch this disease early. Her sister and aunt also had PPC. I am frustrated there is no stage l or ll because there isn't any test or warning or possibly visible cancer at those stages? I…
Dog detects ovarian cancer tissue 100 percent of the time.
We always knew they were our best friends! "Ohlin Frank, a chocolate lab whose focus has the intensity of Sherlock Holmes, is only on his fourth training session at Penn Vet Working Dog Center, but he has been able to detect ovarian cancer tissue 100 percent of the time. He and his fellow trainee, McBaine Chamberlain, a…
Omentum surgery/removal questions
Hi all, I had hoped to get thru the holidays before tackling this topic, but my abdomin doesn't look "right" and the CT in August showed cancer in the omentum fat. I want to explore surgerry. Have not had any surgerry since diagnosis in May via laproscopic. Surgeon said could not do surgery, would have to do chemo.…
Hello everyone!
Just checking in. Always hate to see that someone has passed away from the group. We have lost Tina and now Westie. Stella's mom. It's too sad. My mom just finished up more chemo. She was on doxil which did absolutely nothing. So she really wanted to go back on the carboplatin but she is severely allergic. So they sent her…
Good News
Hi ladies, I just wanted to let you know that I got good news this past wed. CT scan was good showing that I am responding to the chemo. CA 125's have came down from 3028 to 1504 after 2 rounds of doxil and 8 weeks of Amg386. The problem is I didn't get to take my doxil treatment wed because I am having issues with my…