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Lump on surface of sternum
It's been a while since I popped onto the board. My wife is set for her 1 year (post chemo) scan this week. She has 6 cycles of ABVD that ended April 16th of last year (The Bleo was only for 3 cycles.) After her third cycle she had interim scans that came back clear. She was stage 2 with 3 enlarged nodes in her pelvis /…
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Pet scan
Hi all, I'm new here and am wondering if I should seek a second opinion out. I just got back my pet scan results and my dr said we need a biopsy done but when I went in for the biopsy the radiologist decidied to do a ultra sound instead and said you dont need a biopsy you are fine. My pet scan came back as the following:…
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Lympg node same size for 2 years, what to do?
Hi, i remember the exact day the two lymph nodes popped up, i was attending my regular muay thai class, we was doing alot of kicking that night, i felt a very bad pain in the right side of my groin, i thought i had a small hernia, upon attending the doctors they told me it was a lymph node, It's been around 2 years now as…
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Halfway Through
This last week I had my 3rd R-CHOP cycle and am officially halfway through. Seem to be tolerating it fairly well. Vincristine is my nemesis causing issues with numbness in my fingertips and causing significant constipation. Having mid treatment scans which my onc believes will show NED. I will be having a discussion about…
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joint pain after chemo has ended
I have stage 4 grade 2 non hodgkins lymphoma, it's in the bone marrow too. I had my last chemo in Nov. I'm having bad joint pain that started in Jan. Is this normal? I had bendeka and rituxin and now on rituxin every 6 wks for maintenance. I'm in remmission. Has anyone else experianced this?
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I beat Hodgkin's twice but I thinks it is back again
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Dr. Robert O. Hickman 1927-2019
Dr. Hickman, developer of the universally used Hickman catheter, has died at age 92. He retired at least three times, but always felt the call to return and serve. At age 83, and after having retired twice, he placed my first port in July, 2008. Ironically, both of my Hickman catheters were placed by other physicians.…
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Biopsy?
Hello! Please let me know if this type of post isnt allowed. I'm just curious about what it is like to get a biopsy done on a node? I am a 24yo female enlarged left occipital lymph node for the past 5 almost 6 weeks, it’s not painful but it’s hard, shaped like a sideways tear drop and non moving occipital lymph node about…