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Colorectal Cancer

Archives for March 2014

aggie0053
dr just called said cancer in nodes in stomach, he said they think it's colon cancer again, going for more test this week. makes me mad i just had a colonoscopy aug 6 last year.
5 Year Mark
April 5th will be my 5 year mark since diagnosis and surgery still NED.... Big Happy Dance this week.
New member - Jimmontana
Hi Jim, I have taken the liberty to copy your post from another thread here, so that others will see it and reply. As always we are sorry you had need to find us, but glad you are here among patients, and caregivers who know how it really is. -------------------------------------------------------------- Starting the…
Worried daugther , mom has stage 4 colon cancer Help!!
My mom has been diagnoised with colon cancer, she just had her surgery this monday they had to remove her spleen,colon and one of her ovaries and fallopian tubes and lymnodes. We didnt know what stage it was till the yesterday. The surgery itself went well . The doctor came out and said that it could be stage 3 or maybe…
IV for 4
Four years...it seems like only yesterday. Hers has been a high quality four year journey with mCRC for two uncomplicated surgeries, only slight chemobrain from metronomic immunochemotherapy at home, mild scanxiety on blood tests every 5 weeks to 9 days, without the heavy chemo torture-follies and costs. The first year had…
Biopsy Blues
Arrgh. I'm trying to get into a clinical trial, so I needed a test to determine if my tumors expressed something. So my onc scheduled me for a liver biopsy last week. Well, I had it done at the hospital and somehow the surgeon doing the test took out healthy liver tissue and not tumor tissue! Arrgh. That was a big waste of…
CEA rises .5 to 10.9 - 18.6 - UPDATE - BAD
That news sure took the wind out of my sales. Doc wants me to have a PET scan. Insurance wouldn't cover it last time, so he will talk with them. If they won't do it, he said an MRI on the liver (have a suspect spot there) will be done. Onward and upward. I will not be beat.
Surgery yesterday
they operated yesterday that went well but they did biopsy on liver lesion that thay spotted and its metastcid from colon and i know i did not spell right
update from aggie0053
had a endoscopic test today( been 4 years in may clean) SAID I HAD PERIGASTRIC LYMPHADENOPATHY from ct scan doc said pancreas, esophagus, liver were normal. have to wait a couple days for biopsy. i hate this not knowing, thanks just wanted to talk
Sending Love to JohnybeGood
JBG Just wantef you to know.. I was thinking about you... Hoping you are doing well... Lifting you up in prayer... Sending you Love and Light, Phil ALL -- PLEASE JOIN IN, SENDING JBG SOME CYBER LOVE.
Good News!
Went to my onc on 3/21 after surgery. CEA was under 1. Onc did not think chemo would help at this point. He said I have had the main go-to chemo (FOLFOX & Oxciliplatin then FOLFIRI and Erbitux). If I can make it a year without a reoccurrence he would consider chemo again. He did mention other chemo we could try but didn't…
Scan this week...
Hi Guys, I just thought I would let everyone know that Dennis has a scan this Thursday. I don't have to tell you how anxious I am wondering what kind of news we will get. Dennis had Sirispere a few weeks ago so the scan is to see how effective it was or wasn't. I have to be honest and say that I am mentally and physically…
Second recurrence - microwave ablation suggested
After a colon and liver resection surgery in August 2012 / September 2012 , I have now faced two recurrences in the liver. I had maintenance Chemo of erbitux post resection from December 2012 till March 2013. Six month after that I had a recurrence. the first one was a liver met 3.5 cm in segment 4b of the liver , ( new…
waiting for pet scan results- update
And the anxiety is killing me. This never gets easier does it? We have a couple of important family events in the next two weeks and bad news would suck, but I guess there is no good time for bad news. I wish we had put the scan off for a couple of weeks.
5 years and back in the OR
Hi Friends, It was 5 years, 3 months ago that I first wrote here when **** was diagnosed. Now, I am once again waiting in the OR waiting room as **** has what we hope is a short and successful surgery. He is having a biopsy so cancer tissue can be fedexed to San Fransisco for some cutting edge bio tech possibilites. Our…
Japan now first to use oral Lonsurf (Tas-102)for mCRC that has seen standard treatment failures,
made by Taiho and soon to be tested worldwide http://www.taiho.co.jp/english/news/20140324.html and further down the road http://blogs.jeffersonhospital.org/atjeff/2014/03/24/combining-radiation-therapy-colon-cancer-vaccines/ www.newswise.com/articles/view/615426/?sc=dwhn
lung Surgery at last - any advice?
nervous but excited. After three and a half years of chemo and no new tumors finally having surgRey to remove lung nodules became resistant to erbitux so options running out. Molokai at microwave targeted therapy but larger tumor one inch too big ....six mm. tumor in left lung dead, or whatever they call it so the three in…
Discussion of new immunotherapy trial (plus a lot of other useful info)
I just wanted to make sure that you all saw this thread from the Colon Club forum. There is one member there who has put a great deal of time and energy into tracking new clinical trials as they come up. The link below is to a discussion of an immunotherapy trial that looks promising, and has/will have numerous locations,…
janderson
Hey Jeff...just wondering how its going. Don't think I've seen a recent post from you.
Maxicat?
Hi Maxicat - have not heard from you in a while. As another 3B signet cell, I like to make sure you are doing ok. Just let us know.
Dumped by my doc...should I be hurt?
My oncologist emailed me recently to tell me that he thought I should go back to my GP for any further care, as it's been three years since he last saw me (my last actual tx was surgery in 2011, but it has been a long time since I did chemo). Now, tbh, I really don't much like the guy. I'm only here typing away through a…
planned csn maintenance this morning
Planned maintenance will be done on CSN this morning between 5:00 and 8:00 Eastern Time. There may be one or more outages during this time. We apologize for the inconvenience. Greta
Oh, no. We've been robbed...
I just tried to follow another longtimer's success story and hit a "Time Barrier". I could no longer travel back in CSN before February, 2011 - it's gone. This is a disaster. Thankfully I've already seen, learned and pondered from a lot of others' invaluable experience across 10-12 years these past four years. It really,…
12 Years Cancer Free Today!
12 Years Cancer Free Today! Brief History: Age 40, Diagnosed with Rectal Cancer - Stage 3C 10 out of 14 lymph nodes positive no recurrences Just wanted to share and encourage anyone starting this journey to have Faith and Hope. Be Well! Lisa
Wife has stage 4
Hello Everyone, My wife was diagnosed stage 4 colon cancer a year ago next week. She had gone almost 1- 1/2 years being misdiagnosed and not taken seriously. A doctor friend decided to check her out and found a 5" tumor obstructing her transverse colon and small intestine. The cancer has invaded her liver and has affected…
oral chemo+off-label drugs+supplements
My wife's CEA jumps and climbs from a very stable trendline in the mid 2's anytime there is a disruption among several critical immunochemo components. So far we have recovered the situation by better chemistry and/or more surgery once, with smaller and fewer imaged lesions and thingies over time. Adding celecoxib, our…
To tan or not tan the belly scars?
I've been thinking and I need your input. I'm Heading to sunny Cancun in May and I'm wondering, how many here actually tan their scars? If so, can oh share your experties. Do the scars appear: 1. No change color, they stay same color. or tanning lotion keeps them white or unchanged. 2. tan the scars, and scars won't be…
PhillieG
Does anybody know how Phil is doing? I have been sort of spotty in attendance here. Hoping he's okay. *hugs* Gail
Update from Laz
It's been 4 weeks since I finished chemo. Everything is going well: my hands and feet healed up except some nubness and my vitality is coming back although I just did some light gardening and my energy just dropped like crazy. I'm planning on going back to work part time in a month. I hope by then my hands will improve and…
To the mods-can't post comments
Don't know if I'm the only one having this problem, but when I tried to post a comment on the post by SilentRenegade, I'm unable to do so. It gives me only the "preview" option, then when I preview the comment, the "submit" button reappears, but clicking on that only returns it to the preview page. I noticed that there is…

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