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Colorectal Cancer

Archives for January 2012

Hi mates it's FRIDAY , any interesting plan for the weekend ?
It's been epiphany,s day here, very important celebration here the 3 wise man brings the christmas presents to the children so the whole week end with family and nephews playing and asambling toys! hahaha! Hugs my friends!
Gotta buy my own lunch???????????
So I have been through chemo treatments in several facilities, CT, NY and now CA. Just moments ago, I asked when lunch is served. I was given a take out menu and have to order for delivery. I would guess my chemo will cost around $15K. Pretty amazing that I have to buy my own lunch. I did not realize how good I had it…
Any Tips on Giving Up My Status as a Junkie?
Hi all-I've been taking Vicodin for almost a year now, and would love to stop using it. I was taking it originally for joint and muscle pain brought on by chemo, and recently had to double my dosage (from two pills a day to four) in the aftermath of surgery. Now I feel I don't really need to take it anymore, as my pain…
Complete removal and reconstruction of diseased liver ,re-implanted w/o any tumors?
Anyone heard of this being done for CRC with liver mets? Article entitled: "Radical Liver Surgery, West Coast First" implies this was performed already elsewhere in US.....Speaks of liver cancer but not mets from CRC...... newswise.com/articles/view/584459/?sc=dwhn
Friday ultrasound for right abdominal mass
All well wishes and prayers appreciated! Onc thinks its scar tissue (it's under my liver resection scar), I wonder if it's a hernia, naturopath thinks maybe a pocket of stuff from a clogged bile duct or backed up liver. Blood work didn't indicate a problem that way. Of course I thought at first it must be a tumor but my…
Anyone had prostrate infection?
This is turning out to be a bad week. Just got home from ER because of allergic reaction to an antibiotic I took. I broke out in hives and was having hard time breathing. Going back the reason for the antibiotic was because of all the pain I've been having this week. The pain was in the rectem also felt like i had to go…
Calling all Stage IV's!
OK, I'm tired of "waiting". I'm starting my 6th year of chemo and I'm just tired. Naturally, my Oncologist thinks chemo is the only way to go, however, the mets to my lungs continue to grow. I have about 7 scattered throughout both lungs. I've found that once the mets are in both lungs, no one wants to touch you. My…
cea 66 today up from 7 in 4 weeks, i might have more than the common cold going on !!!!!
cea 66 today up from 7 in 4 weeks, i might have more than the common cold going on !!!!! that was an attempt at humour! yes i know poor. not the best news friends, Well I have tried a pretty heavy supplement regime which was supposed to be effective against my tumours. details on the blog. the regime or the tumour or both…
Pathologic Complete Response
Anybody else out there had or know someone that had a pathologic complete response to neoadjuvant chemoradiation and what they did post surgery treatment wise. I am getting conflicting advice on what to do. As you can guess, oncologist recommends chemo and surgeon does not. The surgeon has been involved in research on this…
Anyone familiar with Taxol?
My sister-in-laws cancer has spread more (originally breast cancer 15 years or so ago, then came back in bones and lungs last year, she was on hormone treatment for it, but it did not work) she ended up in hospital with one lung having a liter of fluid they took out, and goes tomorrow to get the other lung's fluid removed.…
Overall cancer death rates decline
Hope this link works. Sorry guru guys still can't figure out the links. They mentioned colorectal cancer in this article so that is hopeful. http://health.msn.com/health-topics/cancer/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100283000
"Gene Mutation Linked to Chemo-Resistant Colon Cancer".....FYI,
at:consumer.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=660414 as well as:medpagetoday.com/HematologyOncology/ColonCancer/30504
Safely made another switch....UPDATE
Whew!...and during the flight, my beau saved a man's life! (We were then moved to first class...too bad it was after dinner *smile*). As a result, ended up with a stopover in Chicago on our 'nonstop' flight.... Dutch hugs, Kathi
How To Decide When to Try a Trial
Just curious - I'd like to move treatment for this disease along - how do you decide when you should stop treatment and participate in a trial?
CEA check time. January Ck - Up 2.
I had my 27 wedding anniversary and my CEA CHECKED YESTERDAY. BITTERSWEET. I FIND OUT the results Thursday evening, To a healthier 2012, January 18, 2012 I get rescanned tomorrow morning! Hate scans!!
hard lump scar tissue or something else?
For a little over two months now, I have had a hard "something" in the right side of my abdomen- right under the bottom of where my scar from my liver resection is. It was bothering me for awhile, but now it doesn't hurt or bother me anymore, physically, that is. My onc felt it and said he thought it probably was scar…
HAI pump- questions
Hello, I am just now learning about the HAI pump - sounds fascinating. I spoke with my onc nurse today and she wasn't aware of the procedure and told me that they don't do it at the Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre. So . . . . . I am wondering: - are there any Canadains out there that have had it done? - where? - I know there…
Regorafenib do you know when is going to be approved by FDA?
No news about EMEA approval here yet! Hugs!
First Scan Since Chemo - Nervous - PET
Hi well my first scan to see how the chemo is doing is Thursday. I'm nervous - told me to eat low carb, low sugar the day before. Guess I'll just eat veggies. I then have to wait till the next Wed for results. I feel pretty good and even that worries me - so hope that is good news - just a little numbness in hands and…
has anyone heard of cea level rising during chemo????
was wondering if anyone has had or heard of their cea level rising after 1 month of chemo? I mean from 100's to 1000's.....
2012
Not so crazy about the way 2012 is starting. Hubby was admitted today. Severe pain in the abdomen, total weakness, unable to walk, even with the walker. They have done scans,looking for possible new mass in abdomen. Regular oncologist still out for holidays, so I will feel better when we talk with her. What really worries…
Back in the hospital :UPDATE 1/8/11 plus a bit more after an interruption
This time we had the fire dept at the house, and an ambulance here, all at the insistence of the home health nurse. Not sure what is wrong, just hope they figure it out... More details when I am feeling better. Blake UPDATE 1/5/11: Symptoms included low grade fever, SEVERE night sweats, severe edema in left leg and groin…
HIPEC
HIPEC. I was told on another post that HIPEC would be a good option for me since they found a tumor on my abdominal wall which they did remove. I looked the prceedure up on line and it sounds very promising. It looks like only a handful of hospitals do it. I would like to hear from anyone who has done this and how long it…
and maybe the reason i got cancer is ?
and maybe the reason i got cancer is ? they found helicobacter on the endoscopy and the same time they found crc on the colonoscopy 18 months ago. i never realised the significance until i just finsihed reading nutritional medicine:fact and fiction by dr igor tabrizian. basically the helicobactor inhibits digestion in…
7 Years
Hi all, Some of the older members may remember me, and to the newbies, "Hello". This past Friday marked 7 years since my surgery for stage 2a colon cancer. Back then I had a laprascopic right hemi-colectomy, and chose no chemo since the data at the time indicated there were no differences in long term survival rates or…
New Year
Happy New Year to you all. Last night we went out to have a meal, but both of us didn't feel like celebrating, what will 2012 bring for us??? The secondary bowel cancer to peritoneal is not curable, so we are both very scared. We felt a little like lepers over the hols, I feel that people don't want to spoil what they…
Love, Gail
I want to wish my csn family a Happy New Year and tell you how much you have helped me make it through some of my worst times. I hold you so close to my heart and will be forever grateful for you and this board. I love you. plh4gail
Radiation for rectal cancer
Happy New year to everyone! I hope that 2012 is a good year for all of us. It would be nice to have a year without cancer treatment for sure. We haven't had that in this house since 2003. Next up is radiation for my husband. We are trying to decide on a doctor. Looking for advice on this one. We saw a doctor locally who we…
treating lymphedema in right leg
Hi, I'm stage 4 colon cancer with mets to lungs and many, many lymph nodes in abdomen and chest and pelvis, just found out my inguinal nodes are cancerous and my L5 vertabrae. Anyway, my right leg is swollen from groin to toes, no pain, just weird kinda numb. I make my living on my legs, mowing and weed eating, lawn…

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