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Peritoneal Cancer

Archives for April 2014

I am SO lucky . . . .
Have managed mostly to forget about PPC for more than a week, among people who don't have a clue I'm "sick." Daily walking tours are a bit more than I bargained for, but I'm managing. It's back to chemo a week from today, but meanwhile am enjoying a fabulous trip with my husband. I wish the same for all my sisters &…
Juliebelle
I have posted some sad news about Juliebelle on the Ovarian Cancer Board , many of you will remember her.
Mom diagnosed 11/13. Hospice was called in
My mom is 59 years young. She was diagnosed with PPC November this year. She had her chemotherapy treatments at Memorial Sloan Kettering. They did 4 rounds of carbo/taxol 1 round carbo/taxol/Avastin and one treatment of Doxyl. CT scan showed peritoneal thickening had slight thinning happening and the tumor has slightly…
My CA 125 is heading up & my "chemo holiday" is over.
Remission was sweet, but it seemed SO short. For weeks at the end of last year, every time I worried about my escalating CA 125 number my oncologist said, "But it's still in the normal range!" That was true until December, when it went up to 44; but I was soon advised to take a 90-day "chemo holiday." While I did, I tried…
HIPEC April 16th--getting jittery
Hi! I have seen most of you posting on the Ovarian board, but will post here since technically we still don't know what the primary cancer is. It's been quite the 8 weeks waiting for clearance of a neurologist after a TIA to have an exploratory laproscopic surgery then the Hipec the neext weeek. Getting bombarded by spleen…

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