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I'm home
Hello!!! I got home yesterday evening. Open partial neph has left me with a 12 inch zipper looking scar going across my left side and is highly painful! I'm up walking around regularly and takin a perksort mixed with Tylenol for pain every 4 hours. Surgeon states that the surgery went well and I only lost 10 percent or so…
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Successful removal of a 6cm tumor - Partial Nephrectomy
Does anyone have any success stories to share, who had a succesful partial nephrectomy to remove a 6cm tumor? I'm scheduled to have this surgery in Dec...and would like to know the success & recovery time..also any chemo or radiation? Due to the 6cm size there seems to be more of a risk...& chance of the tumor being…
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Glad I found this place....
Just wanted to introduce myself and say hello. I have stage 4 kidney cancer and am currently taking votrient. I am from Pa and am being treated at Penn State Hershey Medical Center. Would love to meet some people and make some new friends along the way. Feel free to ask me anything. Thanks for reading!
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Biopsy for Kidney Cancer?
If you're kidney is being removed any way, is it normal process to have a biopsy before removal? I don't see the sense in that...
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Meeting with oncologist today
I was able to get a meeting with an medical oncologist today before my Monday meeting with my urologist. Can you suggest questions to ask him? Thanks all.
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Diet
As many of you know, there really isn't a lot out there on prefered diets for Kidney Cancer. I was wondering what do some of you long term survivors recommend? I'm planning on going on more of a plant based diet with little to no animal products. Any other suggestions?
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Path results
This is my pathology after the inital partial. Im not exactly sure what this all means. What stage would this be. My doc says no furhter treatment. Will see me in 6 weeks. What scan and test should I make sure I have. Final Diagnosis A. Kidney, partial nephrectomy: Clear cell renal carcinoma, Fuhrman grade 1, limited to…
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New to The Board
Good Morning All and greetings from Canada!! This is my first post so please forgive me if I break any rules or protocol I came across this page after researching and looking for answers/direction. To sum up my treatment so far.... I have recently been diagnosed with sarcomatoid metastatic renal cell carcinoma with mets in…
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Morning 2nd day
slept good, lot less pain this morning. Big cup of black coffee starting my day. Ken
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Any T2 diabetics here?
Wondering how you did with sugars while on the IV and not really eating much for the first few days. Also wondering how healing went. Fast? Slower than normal? Worried about infection? TIA.
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Surgery in the morning
I sit wondering about the surgery tomorrow, excited to get the monster out , nervous to have the procedure done. We have to travel to Charlotte from our home town it's about a 2 hour drive give or take with traffic..We were told we would hopefully get a "hospitatilty room" we were packed and ready to go down but got the…
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Urologist,Nephrologist, Oncologist???
So we were invited to a large tailgate party yesterday. During the party my wife and I are introduced to an acquaintance of the host " who also had Kidney Cancer" This person is 3 years out from Partial Neph. I explain I am 6 months full neph and schedule for 1st scans this week. They then ask what type. I'm alittle…
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Questions.
Edited to add measurements Hello everyone. I am looking for a few answers. I haven't been diagnosed and my appointment isn't for a couple more weeks. Back in August I had stomach issues and had to have my gallbladder removed (admitted through e.r. and surgery the next day) Everything went well, due to family complications,…
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Blood Tests
I had blood tests last week from my general practitioner. Most of my values are in the normal range, some on edge of low and some on the edge of high... But I have a question about WBC. Right after my surgery, my wbc was 12.6 day after surgery, then fell to 9.1 then to 9.4 by 4 days post op. Last week my new test results…
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Sending NED on its way to visit many others!
Just wanted to pass on the good news! Had my 3 year scan today and was NED. Very happy and sending him on his way to visit many others! I have been more off than on here lately for many personal reasons but this network is VERY dear to me and so are many of you. You helped me go thru very scary moments, you made me laugh…
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Got my pathology results
I went to the Dr for my follow up on my surgery last week. They staged it as T1bNxMx. Fuhrman grade 3. Negative margins of resection and no edvidence of lymphovascular invasion. I go back in 3 months for my Scan. I asked the Dr if I needed to see an oncologist and he said he was going to wait until the scan in February.
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Weight loss from recovery ?
Hi, another question on how much weight might I lose during recovery from cancerous kidney removal ? I am 5' 11" only 140, (I lost 35 lbs this year due to a previous fissure surgery ) and am concermed about losing weight during my recovery. I am not underweight but am very close. Thanks again all, really appreciate all of…
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Please Wish me Luck!
Well, I'm off to Moffitt Cancer Center for a CT of my lungs thanks to the "vague nodular" whatever the x-ray picked up on my last follow up in October. I'm really nervous because until now everything was always clear and I was doing yearly follow ups. I'm just so afraid it's mets. I don't know when I'll get my results but…
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Living to old age after a Neph
I recently had to choose a new doctor, and after several visits and exhaustive lab tests, she said I was doing "fairly well" for my age. Hmmm. Being a little concerned over that turn of phrase, I asked, "Do you think I'll live to be 82?" "Do you smoke, or drink beer, wine or hard liquor?" she asked. "Oh, no," I replied,…
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Another cancer. Just like that. 4 years later, revving up another battle.
I've been MIA. Sorry for that. But we've been thrown a massive curve ball. My husband's most recent scans for stage 3 kidney cancer follow up found a new and different cancer in his small bowel. We are awaiting a surgery date for him to have a resection of the small bowel. There was not a biopsy due to location and because…
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Surgery on Monday
Hi, am new to this, At the end of Sept.at my routine annual physical my Dr. added an ultra sound. That showed somethng in the area of my right kidney so he called me back for a CT scan. That sent me to a uroligist who informed me that I have a cancerous tumor on or in my kidney. We discussed my options, chemo doesn't do…
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Freaking out
Ok. So I had my surgery was Monday to remove my right kidney. Pretty much back to normal with just a bit of pain. Off the meds. Now my anxiety is kicking in since I only have my left kidney now. The original ct Scan said I had a 2cm cyst which I didn’t see as a problem and it also noted a 4-5mm lesion. It mentioned it was…
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New here too
I had relatively minor muscle pains in my bladder area for a few months so my doctor ordered an ultrasound for the bladder and kidneys. which discovered "Renal sonography demonstrates a 4.1 x 3.7 x 3.4 cm in diameter solid-appearing slightly hypoechoic mass at the medial aspect of the upper pole of the left kidney. This…
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Am I the only one
that enjoys watching chickens run around. LOL, seriously though the simple things in life are so calming. my family thinks im crazy , they call me the bird man. i will get home from work and just go out and sit and watch the chickens and drink a beer. what do you guys do to relieve your stress. I also like to go out and…
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scans and anxiety
I have scans yearly now . every febuary. my scan day is a s follows. i drive 1.5 hours to hospital. have my scan in am usually by 8 am. at 1pm i have my visit with the surgeon who performed my neph.and he tells me the results. no waiting sounds great huh? problem is i get so anxious sitting in that room just twaiting for…
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I made it through
I had my surgery 10/30/17 it was a partial Robotic. The surgeon said it was clean margins and thought it was a success. On day two in the hospital the nurses took out the catheter. So I could get up walking . The pain is more the I expected. It seem more like gas pain. There was a complication when the nurses tried to help…
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***Update*** New here.
Waiting impatiently. Went to Doctor May 11th with UTI. Dr found blood in urine culture. Not uncommon. Antibiotics for 2 weeks. Went back for 2 week check. Still blood. Scheduled ultrasound 6/1. Found some unremarkable issues, but Doctor wanted me to see a Urologist. He thought it was just a bad infection. Put me on…
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Ready to Rock and Roll - operation over
Well, I don't even expect anyone to comment on this, feel I should post so that there is a record of how crazy good this has been. Certainly feel that there must be something in all the kind wishes and moral support I have been lent and sent this past week from the people here and family and friends. I had much trepidation…
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Home Now
I have no idea if what I posted before even made sense lol. (thanks to all the meds). I just got home and will try this again... The tumor had grown since being found in August. According to the CT scan images they should have been able to cut out a certain-sized wedge and see clean kidney. However, everytime they cut it…
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Stage t3s
Any encouaging info on stage t3a? I'M SO PANICKED ABOUT THE STAGE AND RECURRENCE-THANKS