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Rare and Other Cancers

Archives for April 2013

adenocarcinoma
my mom was just diagnosed with adenocarcinoma in the small intestine. she had done by pass operation. her tumor remained in the duodenum. it cannot be removed because of its location. the tumor lies tha root of the blood vessels. so what is the next procedure we are going to do?
?? Calcified nodule turning into Adrenocortical carcinoma ??
I'm new to the site and finally managed to answer the questions for the "about me" page. Some of it took some thinking. Anyway, I have a question and I suppose I will have to actually wait for final pathology to find the answer, assuming anyone has an answer. :) One of my surgeons discovered an adrenal nodule during the…
Appendiceal Cancer
I am 51 and after going to the ER for Appendicitis I found out I had a 10cm mass on rt ovary, and shadow or lesions on my liver. I had surgery with a gyn/oncologist at Duke yesterday who quickly found out it was a mucinous appendiceal cancer that had encapsulated my ovary. They removed both ovaries, tubes and appendix…
pnet of the spine
My fiance has just been diagnosed with pnet of the spine. He is 27 years old. The tumor was seen in a contrast MRI 2 weeks ago between L2 and L3. The doctors suspected it to be a neurofibroma. It was surgically removed 2 days later. The biopsy report came in and the doctors now say it is a pnet. PET scan has been done of…
Radiation Failure
A 15 year old girl just passed away in March 2013 three months after treatment using Cyberknife. The girl was told to have 80% success rate of treatment. The treatment failed terribly exploding the tumor on the neck from half size of a plum to half size of a large cantalupe. The tumor became so stiff that it choked off the…
Metestatic Melanoma in the pluera
Has anyone been using Zelboraf as their only option? Side effects?
When your will to live lessens every day
Hilar cholangiocarcinoma age 70
My Father (age 70) was diagnosed with Hiler cholangiocarcinoma. I just started doing some research on this. He is currently in South INDIA. He showed symptoms of jaundice initially. Doctors cut the damaged bile duct piece and placed a metal stent. Hopefully jaundice will go away in few days. Doctor is not hopeful of any…

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