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Colorectal Cancer
Archives for November 2012
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Pete, Where are you???
Has anyone heard from Pete the past couple of days? Winter Marie
PICC line blood clot
I had a port that leaked and ended up getting a PICC to complete my 4 weeks of 5FU. The first few days it hurt then started to turn red and swollen. Ended up going to onc and being admitted to hospital for blood clot. So had an ultrasound couple of months ago and clot was still there but small. I have been doing Lovenox…
change in meds
well i have been taken off folfiri and just started on folfox please will you all tell me any thing that might help? john
Had a scope done today
I had a scope done today. Dr. said that the had shrunk some. I hope all goes well with this surgery. I also have a question didd anyone with rectal tumor have any back pain? Thanks, Pat
Thank you so very much
Your most kinds words of love, encouragement and sympathy has warmed my heart beyond words. Christy and I are relaxing a bit now as all plans have been finalized. George's visitation will be tomorrow and a memorial service Saturday morning followed by a luncheon at one of his favorite restaurants. We think we did things…
Hi mates it is FRIDAY any interesting plan for the weekend?
Nothing here just resting ! What about you?
Living with a J-Pouch
August 12, 2011, the Doctor came in my room after a routine colonoscopy told me that he found cancer. The tumor was real close to the anus. My husband and I went into shock. Now, what? Appointments were made. Test were taken. Then the news that the tumor make be too close to the anus to be saved. The cancer was stage 2.…
Sstill in hospital
Still in the hospital...cant get the counts high enough. Been giving white blood and plates. WBC. 09 PLATES dropped yesterday from 66000to 48000. WBC went up from. 08 to. 09. Have diarea about every 2 hours (sore butt) . My daughter is driving up from Cincinnati today which is great. Depending on how I do my precious…
Angela/port issue
Hello Angela, I know today you see the onc about the port, I sure as h@ll hope they are going to do something STAT! Until your update I didn't realize how "open" his port was, OMG, unbelievable that they let it get to that point. I had a nightmare about my port last night and it was horrible, but the reality of what your…
Maintenance chemo of erbitux after resection of colon and liver
I had resection of sigmoid colon in July 2012 and liver resection in august 2012. RFA to mets in august 2012. Pathology report of colon tumour shows pT2 N0 Mx, liver mets pathology was mostly necrosis from the chemo. This was after 10 cycles of FOLFOX plus erbitux biweekly and erbitux weekly. Adjuvant chemo started mid Oct…
Avastin
My husband stage 2 in 2008 did surgery & Radiation all good until 2011. Then in 2011 CEA started going up and peaked at 46. This year he did Avastin & Oxi for 5 months. Had surgery Aug 10, 2012 for Colostomy due to three blockages 2 from radiation and 1 from dead tumor after surgery CEA 1.9. Now it is going up again it is…