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Colorectal Cancer

Archives for August 2005

Gulf states patients
I'm in the hospital for three more days getting another chemotherapy infusion, and this hospital (Northside in Atlanta) is already taking patients from the gulf states. They are actually placing patients on the oncology floor, I guess because there are just so many affected people. I know it has nothing to do with colon…
Another bowel obstruction
Hi everyone, I am trying to catch up on the posts again, I was just discharged from the hospital with another small bowel obstruction. It was the first one since my colostomy surgery in Jan, but it it was about the 5th or 6th one since I started with this terrible illness. Oh well, it is good to be home and it will be nice…
Update
My mom had a surgery last monday. The surgery went very well and my mother had a full recovery in 6 days. No complications at all. They found 12/15 lymphnodes positive. The next step is chemo that would be administered on the 6th. It is 5FU+Camptosar. Are there any other scans or anything that needs to be done before the…
ct scan pushed back
well my dad saw his oncologist yesterday and today he was scheduled for his ct scan but the oncologist felt we can wait another month. of course the worry wart that i am kinda questioned him about this but he feels being on a 4 month surveillance is the same as being on the 3 month schedule. i don't know how i feel about…
Question for Betsydoglover
Hi Betsy, I have been reading some of your post regarding you will recieve Avastin alone once you finish your other chemo. No disrepect to you or your Doctor treatment but my doctor Oncologist told me that I couldn't recieve Avastin alone because it works better with the other chemo drugs(example Folfox & avastin). I…
Finished w/ Radiation...
Hey Gang, I finally finished my last two shots of Radiation, yesterday and today. I had to stop for 2 weeks, I have never been that sick in my life , the diarrhia I experienced (10 days straight) was quite maddening. I swear, if it went a little longer they were going to have to put me in a rubber room, hopefully w/ a…
Hair loss with chemo
It seems like I had been told that hair loss in not usually a side effect of chemotherapy drugs in the treatment of colon cancer. Yet, lately, my hair seems to be getting quite thin. I am on 5FU + Oxaliplatin + Avastin. Has anyone else experienced hair thinning or hair loss from these drugs? I'm wondering if my hair…
My mom
Hi all, My mom is recovering from her partially successful surgery to remove metastisized colon cancer. She is left with several small tumors throughout the abdomen and liver. She will be starting Folfiri on Sept. 7th. I have several concerns about different issues ..please respond to any or all of them if you can!! 1.…
Vacation Celebration
Hi all, We just returned from 10 days on a lake in Maine, where we have vacationed every year for the last 18, in a camp setting with other friends. Last year this time, I had just completed chemo and had an unrelated-to-cancer thyroid removal. I had lost weight, felt run down (and run over!), and had just heard that my…
stage IV 's please help
If you have a minute and are stage IV can you please let me know what treatment you are on (or were on) and for how long have you been on the treatment- and how long since your diagnosis....I am trying to make some sense out of my husbands latest diagnosis of going from stage 3 to stage IV..Thank you so much Bev
for Kerry and Juliababy
Kerry......tonight you are in my rainbow dreams. Susana....We are wishing your dad the very best for wednesday sweetie! luv n huggs, Ross n Jen
Sponger
Struth..I go awol workin for a coupla days n then I come back n see our resident humourist telling everyone his plumbing needs an overhaul! Bob..yah gotta lay off tha pina-coladas! Sorry you are not doin' so well mate. You are the anchorman(references to the sea intentional) of humour here and there is sadness in our…
Was Cancer now What?
Hi friends, well I got the dreaded call on Friday the day after surgery that what they removed was cancer. The colo/rectal surgeon called me right away which I thought was nice and not make me wait all weekend. I hope I can explain this the way he explained it to me and my husband. He said the spot itself was so tiny and…
prayers needed
Hi all, been a while - sorry. brief history - hubby dx feb 04 stage 4 cc. all tumors surgically removed last year, but he now has a bowel obstruction and is going in for exploratory surg. tomorrow (Mon) afternoon. Please keep us in your prayers and any info /advice about adhesions (they suspect this or tumors) would be…
to faith
I'm trying (unsuccessfully to respond to Faith's post, so I thought I'd try this.. anyway, don't let your doctors off that easy..they may not "want to talk about it" , but that's thier job. Bud
FOLFIRI + AVASTIN Bi-weekly
Is anyone on this same schedule? My father stage IV mets to liver has a 3.5 hour infusion then goes home and the nurse comes to hook him up to a pump/bag of chemo for 44 hours. He had his first treatment 2 weeks ago and next one tomorrow. I guess he tolerated his first one OK, the usual bad taste in mouth, weak, tired,…
PELVIC RADIATION
I have been briefly told in 1 sentence line from a few of these DRs that I work with that radiation to the pelvic area for colon cancer is rarely used. One GI DR who does not know my case stated they only do radiation to the rectum with colon cancer not the pelvis. I told this DR. I had no choice. THe tumor was adhered to…
I'm back
I spent a week at Cape Cod with my in-laws and 2 other couples. I just got back yestday and I am trying to catch up. As soon as I got off the plane in Houston I was cursing this hot, humid, oppressive city. Cape Cod was PERFECT the entire week. My last night we had a bonfire on the beach. A group next to us was having…
Recovery without treatment?
My mother of 74 yrs old has had colon cancer for two years. It is now at stage four. She has been on 5FU, Avastin,Campasar,& Erbitux. She has not tolerated these treatments well. With the last treatment Erbitux she ended up in hospital for a week with severe diarrhea & nausea. During her stay a cat scan & chest xray were…
colostomy
Has anyone had leakage at rectum after having colostomy . My mother has had colostomy for two years and after being in hospital from severe diarrhea and nausea from Erbitux she noticed some discharge from rectum
WOULDN'T YA JUST KNOW IT!
I come back from being AWOL and the next thing I know I'm in the hospital and unable to post. I had some emergency surgery done on Thursday, came home late Friday and I'll have to go back in for more surgery either late next week or early the following week. "Probably" not cancer related - we'll see. Anyway, just wanted to…
ENDOSCOPIES RESULTS,NED
Hello everyone. Even though I do not post often, I do read the message board. I recently was scoped on Tuesday. It has been two years since being dx.with Stage 4 colon cancer,8/20 nodes positive. Ascending colon down to the terminal ileum removed and sigmoid colon removed. Was left with an illesostomy on the right side, a…
erbitux for recurrent colon cancer
erbitux
Rectal Cancer - Support for my Mom
Hello everyone, I'm brand new to this wonderful place of support and am in desperate need of a person who is either going through or has gone through Rectal Cancer to "buddy up" with my mother who is 71 years old and was diagnosed on June the 13th. We have made it through the first 5 weeks of treatment and are now in the…
Support Groups
Are there any support groups that meet in the Laurel, Silver Spring area?
Pet Scan Results/trans anal excision
Hi everyone,,,,after 2 1/2 days of waiting and bursting with anxiety attacks finally Wednesday afternoon I called the hospital and begged someone to tell me my pet scan results. I knew the surgeon had to of read them. About a half hour later a nurse calls me back to tell me everything looks NORMAL. Thank GOD... I…
Cabbage for Colon Cancer?
I bought a book for my father about curing your cancer with nutrition and for colon cancer it says to eat cabbage every day. Does anyone do this or have you heard this before ?
Zoloft question & general freakout
So, now as if having metastatic colon cancer plus anal fissures aren't enough to deal with, apparently I have some astonishingly painful wisdom tooth problem that has the back of my mouth swollen and highly sensitive. My weight has dropped to 158 from 163 in two days, the lowest since high school (all I've been able to eat…
need prayers for upcoming ct scan
Well dad's ct scan is scheduled for next Wednesday and as usual I'm sick worrying about it. To make matters worse, he doesn't look well to me and now he told me he lost some weight. That's really all I needed to hear. I can tell he's also worried to death but he's just not the type of person to talk about it, but I see it…
thoughts for Kerry
Kerry is up for scans monday. Sending you a rainbow honey!All our luv and huggs, Ross and Jen

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