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Ovarian Cancer

Archives for April 2017

Recruitment begins for world's first ovarian cancer vaccine trial
If any of the women are interested - I wanted to pass along. Clinical trial candidates are women diagnosed with advanced stage III or IV ovarian cancer who will have traditional surgery where tumor samples will be collected for vaccine production, followed by standard chemotherapy. If cancer-free after traditional…
Anyone else with mucinous cyst/adenocarcinoma?
Hi. Just found you all and thankful. I was wondering if I am alone with my type of cancer - a mucinous cyst on my right ovary with adenocarcinoma tumor inside. 3 years ago I had exact same type of cyst on the tail of my pancreas (but tumor much smaller and consider stage 1 - this time there were mets on the omentum, but no…
phantom ovarian pains
I had a full hysterectomy in July of last year and I sometimes experience really bad cramps. Has anybody else experienced this first hand? My oncologist told me that she has several patients that have expressed the same pain. Does it get better?
Side effects
Hi All, im a care giver to my mother who was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer Stage 3. She underwent an 11 hour surgery on January 31 where they removed organs and cut the pancreatic tail. Since then she has had diarehha everyday and it's caused her to get dehydrated pretty regularl. We've needed to take her back into the…
A Surgeons Surgical History
Is there a website that shows what type and how many surgeries a surgeon has peformed?
Neoadjuvant
Hii, This is ankitha, recently my mom diagnosed with an ovarian cancer, she is at her monopouse and her age was 47, she doesn't have symptoms, once she had slight pain in abdomen so went for checkup immediately, then the tests reveliled that she has ovarian cancer...It's a schok for us no family history of any kind of…
Anyone here ever have a complete hysterectomy?
After chemo and an updated CT scan, I will be scheduled for a complete hysterectomy. Apart from having cancer, I have huge uterine fibroid tumors. I wanted to know what to expect. I'm a little afraid of the unknown. What did you experience? I'd appreciate any feedback you might have. Thanks in advance.
Another IP port question
I've had my port in about 6 or 7 weeks. It's located right above my right breast. Depending on how I move, I feel a little bit of soreness. Is this normal? Since this is my first port, I'm not sure what's normal or not. I'd appreciate any insight. Thanks in advance.
Good News :)
It's been a rough few months. I lost a friend to triple negative breast cancer. The day she passed away I "felt" her with me. While my CA-125 is dropping! In February it dropped 5 points, in March it dropped 40, today it dropped another 4. It's still elevated, but falling. My doctor thinks two more infusions of Doxil then…
Symptoms and Screening
Hello everyone, I felt it was important to join CSN to post my experience with the hope that I can provide some good and useful information. A little bit about me. I am the mom of two young boys (ages 2 and 4). I had my boys at the ages of 45 and 48 (via donor egg). I am now 50. According to the criteria, I am at average…
Breathlessness?
I am slated to have the start of round 3 tomorrow (dose dense carbo/taxol)... and I feel like crap. I have no energy and if I climb the stairs from the basement, I am out of breath. I have no temperature and no swelling anywhere. From another forum, sounds like my blood counts really dropped (they were low last week, but…
Alternative treatment options
hi! I just got diagnosed with ovarian clear cell stage 3B, I had a debulking surgery and I am looking to ask if anyone has tried alternative treatments and their experience with those? thanks to you all
High Dose IV Vitamin C
I have been touting this for years, since it served me well when I was in treatment. Now it's in clinical trials. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/cp-hdo032317.php

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