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FANTASTIC ARTICLE - PLZ SHARE WITH YOUR FRIENDS
News Release: A Call to Action on Behalf of Women with Below the Belt Cancer We know women’s lives are saved when we look at cancer through a pink lens. How many more could be saved if we included all the colors representing cancers unique to women? Each year, some 90,000 women are diagnosed with “below the belt” cancers;…
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Observation continues
My CA 125 went from 672 to 718. So that was a smaller increase in 7 weeks. I also had a CAT scan which showed an incease in lymph nodes in the chest area and abdominal area, but the doctor was pleased the largest one was around 1 inch. He said the slow increase in the CA 125 was indicative of the increase in the size of…
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favorite ways to make water taste good
Hello all, I'm doing platinum based chemo treatment again and am wanting to drink more water, but have had trouble with the taste. Usually I love just plain water but it seems to get more "chemo" taste just straight. I've been trying some different experiments this week and thought I'd share. been using organic fruit and…
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Does it get easier to go for your doctor appts?
Ladies, I am hoping you, and anyone from any board can chime in, does going to the doctor ever get easier? I am only in about 6 months of the monitoring now and get very anxious when I have to go see the surgeon for my follow ups. I am not talking about the physical exam, I am talking about the unknown. My next visit is…
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new discussion board
A new discussion board is available to report and discuss technical problems. Please give it a try. It is the last discussion board listed on the page with all the boards, please bookmark it for future use. The URL is http://csn.cancer.org/forum/200. Best, Greta aka Your CSN staff
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naturopath specializing in oncology
Post the completion of my chemo and internal radiation therapy i had an appointment with my naturopath with extended oncology training. I thought i would share the information she provided along with the testing she has done and treatment we are starting little background - diagnosed 11/2012 with Uterine Cancer. 12/12/12…
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Second opinions
Hello fellow warriors! I am new to this support community, and have just passed my one year "anniversary" of diagnosis! It is good to know you are all out there! I was diagnosed with endometrial cancer, stage 3C, and have done the surgery, chemo (carbo and taxol) followed by radiation (external beam and brachytherapy.) I…
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Very encouraging!
Very encouraging! Keep your fingers crossed ladies! This could very well be a breakthrough http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/testing_starts_creates_homegrown_4jSHWpWFBEkczPTFque7VM Stanford researchers are on track to begin human trials of a potentially potent new weapon against cancer, and would-be participants are…
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How times have changed....just had to post!
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!! First, you survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, your baby cots were covered…
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advice needed
i was rushed to hospital with severe abdominal pain about 3 weeks ago, and was told it was probably constipation. i went to see my family doc who ordered a transvaginal and abdominal US. they found 2 abnormalties higher up in the lining of my uterus and a growth on my liver. im scheduled for another trans US friday morning…
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Now what!?!?
2013-07-09 This post qualifies as 'now what'! PET/CT colorful around ureterer, possibly Ca encroaching. Some docs said yes! others said fibroids from scar tissue from radiation, as was previously reported to help 'with one hand' and 'cause Prblems later on', my story exactly. now rad scar tissue seems to be blocking,from…
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Another birthday
I am 67 today and happy to see it. 15 months ago I wondered if I'd see 70. Now with the help of NED, my medical team, and all of you, I am counting on it and hope for many more after that.
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Bladder issues after "pelvic floor surgery"
I've cancelled 2 appointments with the urogynecologist because I just don't want to go there! So I'm coming here instead to learn what, if any, bladder issues you have had following what my pcp refers to as "pelvic floor surgery". Here's mine: I have stress and sometimes urge incontinence, up many times during the night to…
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Friend with Uterine cancer. VERY CONCERNED!!
Hi Ladies, I'm coming over from the OVCA board with a question regarding a close friend. My friend had surgery a few months ago for stage 3 uterine cancer. She underwent 25 radiation treatments. She completed those about a month ago. About ten days ago she developed a high fever (103). A medical doctor put her on…
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Something Silly to share
Hola, I just wanted to share with everyone something very silly. I just came back from the grocery store, and while there I meet Charlotte Gerson. She was so sweet to talk to me for a little short period of time. She told me that the best anticancer vegetable, though expensive, was asparagus. She also mentioned the…
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Taxol and Carboplatin
Has anyone else had a rash all over their body and numbness in hands after 1st treatment? The rash didn't itch very much like you would expect from an allergic reaction and resolved after 3 days on steroids and numbness is just in the fingertips now. Treatment team did not think I should have numbness after just one…