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Sue?
i Haven’t seen Sue on here lately…..does anyone know what happened? I miss her.
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CT SCAN BOWELL WALL THICKENING
I found this website, to get more knowledge about what is going on with my CT scan abdoment result. Asymmetrical polypoidal mural thickening of the sigmoid colon with surrounding fat stranding and small perirectal nodes noted – possibility is likely neoplastic bowel wall thickening (inflammatory or infective etiology is…
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Urgh Typed Long Message - Good News
And it disappeared. Long story short (I had more details), been a tough year. Arub passing away hit me hard, as she was there for me from the beginning and we kept on making plans to meet up, but had fall them through. Then shortly after she passed away, it was confirmed my cancer bloomed. Tumors in spine were bad, psoas…
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Stage 2 - chemo decision help!
Hi all, I found this forum as I’ve been trying to understand if I should be doing chemo or not for my recent diagnosis. I had surgery a few weeks ago after discovering a 7cm tumor in my colon. Presented with some abdominal cramping but big concern was low hemoglobin (8.7) indicating I was bleeding internally. Tumors…
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Need help in understanding cancer language
This was on a biopsy report and of course makes no sense to me. Can anyone explain? Thank you Interpretation: No loss of nuclear expression of MMR proteins, low probability of MSI-H Antibody Clone Results MLH1 M1 Intact expression MSH2 G219-1129 Intact expression MSH6 SP93 Intact expression PMS2 A16-4 Intact expression
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Just diagnosed - age 42
Hi everyone, my name is Fraser. I was diagnosed with colon cancer last week after going to emergency because of severe stomach cramps and vomiting. It turns out that my tumour was fully blocking my colon. I had a right hemicolectomy the next day which sounds like it went well. The surgeon said the lymph nodes (which were…
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Remission?
I'm back after a brief absence here so I'll probably repeat things: I was diagnosed with liver cancer a year ago (metastatic from the colon). After 12 chemo fusion sessions (24 weeks) my CEA dropped to 7 and a PET scan showed 6 of the 7 lesions originally in my liver were totally gone and the 7th was “inactive.” Because I…
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High CEA number - excellent CT Scan
I recently had a CT scan and all doctors and nurses are really pleased with the "clear / clean" CT scan. . .however, two days later I had my blood test done, and the CEA number was high at 14.4. I've had two high CEA numbers out of 29 CEA tests done, however, these were during the beginning of Chemo and was 4.5 and 5.3 .…
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When Was Your Port Removed?
My oncologist just advised yesterday that if my scans and bloodwork look fine next spring she will recommend that my port be removed. That would be about the four (4) year mark from my DX and surgery. When was your port removed - or how long have you had it if not removed? I am a Stage 3 colon cancer patient with lesions…
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hemorrhoids or cancer?
Hello... Please don't judge me because I am terrified, I suffer from anxiety. I've been having pain in the anus area for a few weeks, which comes and goes.. better and worse days... and I notice that I've been going to the bathroom more than usual. I looked for a proctologist, and he did the touch exam, said that I have an…
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APR - Recovery and tips
Hi, everyone. My 41-year old husband is scheduled to have a robotic APR on Nov 9th after being diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer on Xmas of last year (he was later “downgraded” to Stage III after the liver mets were discovered to be hemangiomas). I’m looking for any info on what the surgery and recovery were like for…
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Irinotecan and UGT 1A1 Genotyping
My Pam has had a harsh reaction to Folfiri since her first infusion with it. She has had 15 infusions with it so far. So a month ago a CNP ordered a blood test, UGT1AA Genotyping. A week or so later we got the results: variant(s) detected. We learned that what this means is that Pam cannot process Irinotecan (and some…
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Head/Neck Cancer survivor & brother has colon polyp
I am 3 years out of Nasal cancer and I am active in that forum. Yesterday, I found out my brother had a colon scan, and has a polyp (tumor?), that is 50mm (2 inches ) in diameter. He tells me it is also close to his (kidney? liver?) He is waiting for the biopsy, and in the head & neck world, one is always reminded, “it’s…