Childhood Cancers
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Dietary advise, please help.
My son was recently diagnosed with ALL. I'm confused by dietary guidelines as most oncologists often advise to go for normal eating habits. I'm caught in dilemma, not knowing which one to go for. I ache for my son, he doesn't take any more candy bars and chips, part of his childhood has been taken away... I'm always in…
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Dating
This question is more for survivors around 20-25. As I hit the years of dating I find it hard to connect with someone. I always struggle between telling them about my past or just waiting and seeing if it will eventually come up. This is not something we talk openly about in my family, its more of a "past memory" that we…
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Nausea after treatment
My daughter just completed a 15 month treatment protocol for medulloblastoma. She was diagnosed at age 13, had surgery to remove the tumor, had 6 weeks of proton radiation, and her major chemo drugs were cytoxin, cisplatin, and vincristine. All through treatment she had very severe nausea and vomiting. She just stopped…