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How much time?
Hi everybody, Just registered but have been reading through your posts for a while as I find it helps a lot to deal with this heinous disease. My dear mum (66) had peritonitis on holiday in Sept last year and we only found out in Jan that the tumour was cancerous. She had a scan then which revealed 2 large tumours on the…
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fart your troubles away!!!!!!!!! fartfartbubble hey
now this is deep and and meaningful post. anyone want another laugh read on. 3 months after reconnection, i have noticed that using 2 immodiums most days keeps my stools together and stops the horrendous 50 poo a day symdrome. this is the only medication i take but its worth its wait in gold. within 20 minutes of taking…
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the most intelligent organ ???????
this is another serious post, sorry in advance!!!!!!!!!!!! I think it is the RECTUM. its because our rectum can tell the difference between gas, liquid , solid better than the large intestine. i miss most on my rectum. its a marvellous organ. Any other contenders ??? hugs, pete
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Recovery from liver resection - experiences?
Hello all, So I'm stage 4 diagnosed in March but things have been doing along pretty well. CEA counts took a nose dive during the first set of 6 chemo sessions, and am two weeks out of having a partial liver resection to remove one confirmed met and much smaller one found during surgery. The path report showed nothing…
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WTF?
Hello everybody, I went to see my Onc yesterday for a “routine visit” only to get a big shock from what she told me. As many of you know I had my last CT scan last May 17th and a few days later I got a call from my doctor telling me that everything is fine and she’ll see me on my next visit. Well, I don’t know if she…
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Neutropenia and lower dosage of chemo, your opinion please!
Hi mates , would appreciate your comments .Since I had an episode of neutropenia ( infection included hahaha)in my last infusion, my doc wants to low a little,just a little he said, my dosage, he says it will not affect the results of chemo since normal dosage use to be the maximum your body can deal with, not what the…
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Question about lymphnodes
My mom's colon cancer has not spread to any of her organs; however she has some lymph nodes in her chest and abdomen that have cancer. My question is can these not be removed? The doctor told us no....can anyone explain. She is on Erbitux (only) and we find out Thursday if it's working or not. Thanks. Love FM
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update on tests
I am so glad I "fired" my gastro doctor of many years and went with this new doc.The new doc is one of the best in my area and despite being one of the best he listens to his patients...no more "I'm the doctor I know what's best". Obviously, I am very happy to report that I didn't even have a polyp in my colon and the…
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feeling better after doc visit
hello all.thanks for all the support and hugs to everyone.went to see my surgen today and he feels very confident about my upcoming liver surgery.so with that it makes me feel better too.my chemo onc made a mistake last week and told me that my surgen had spoke to him and said i was inoperable.WHAT A BLOW to us that was.my…
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Not sure what to do
My son was dx with stage 3 rectal cancer 03/09/10, had radiation xeloda to shrink tumor, resection 07/10, mop up chemo for four months. Had his ileo reversed 1/11, f/u CT 4/11 which showed artifacts to lungs and 3 nodes by his lumbar spine. He got a 2nd opinion at Sloan Kettering and was told to take the waite and see…
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dealing with new chemo regimen
I am a two year stage iv colon cancer patient with mets to liver. I just changed docs/hospitals and regimen. These docs are more aggressive and feel they can do procedures on my liver which is great. My problem is the chemo. My oncologist for now says two months of it. I go one week and get campostar and get hooked up with…
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3 months after AP resection
Hello all... I finally became a member of the site after reading stories and situations for a long time... I had an AP resection April 21 2011 at the age of 41 due to rectal cancer. before that they tried to shrink the tumor with radiation and chemotherapy. It shrunk but the surgeon thought the best thing to do was to take…
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Wondering about my treatment
I'm posting for the first time having read many stories here and on other sites have not seen anyone answer some off my questions. I had surgery March 19,2011 for a rectal tumor only 1.5 cm from anus so J-pouch was not an option and I have a permanent colostomy. Having had drive thru radical mastectomy in 1996 ( one night…
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aggie here on checkup
went for my colonoscopy, doc said see you in 2 years everything looked good. went to my onc. last monday, gave blood said everything looked normal boy what a feeling
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jonnybegood , how are you?
Miiss you!
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Hi mates, it's FRIDAY ! any interesting plan for the weekend?
Beach of course!
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Round 2 of round 2
My wife is starting irinotecan, avastin, and Xeloda. Hoping for mild to no side effects. CEA over 400, so hope this regime gets things under control. Best
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Back to Work
I start my new job next week. Back to Human Resources!! Glad to hear I'm still in the running and making the money! :-) lol As many of you know, my other job issue is still going strong. I am not giving up on Cancer discrimination!
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I feel real moodiness ,fidgety , in very bad manners today , yesterday was my disconnection and havi
Shouting every body, can't stay calm ,moving from one room to other! . Did it happen to you some times?. Need a bit of help!
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Need to vent.......
Hi all, Been a while since I posted anything, been pretty much just lurking around. I started up my folfiri/Avastin and had just completed my sixth treatment. Ugh, I find this regiment to be both hard physically and mentally and I commend all of you folks who have been battling the beast all this time. I try to use **** as…
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Hilum...defined.......
In my evening of searching about any and all things concerning hilum, what I have surmised is that it is a particular section of a lymph node. So what I am possibly looking at is a cancerous node ? Is this close or way off base...I am simply getting a full grasp of who what when where how and why before the trip to Vandy…
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this man of mine is crazy
Guy I've been with jorge for 24 years and he has never asked for ice in anything he drinks this man would drink warm beer on a hot day and now he has done 2 rounds of folfox and oxy. And he is asking for ice in his drinks this man is backwards. I'm done trying to understand him but all I know is he is nuts .hugs to all Tina
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Insurance not paying for Lung RFA anymore?????????
Has anyone heard anything about this. I have seen 2 different sets of doctors now to discuss RFA for lungs. Both said it is a recent determination that the benefit of RFA to lungs does not add much to survival time and therfor will not be covered by most insurance companies anymore. They will continue to cover liver RFA…
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3rd day after Irinotecan/Camptosar/CPT-11 plus Avastin
Dear all, Today is the third day of her new chemo regimen (Irinotecan+avastin), she is handling it well. She can still eat although she looks very tired. She has signs of diarrhea but I let her take imodium immediately and it seems under control at the moment. I've heard that from the 4th day, it will be the beginning of…
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need to vent i am tired
good evening semi's praying all is well. i am having a hard time recently with not the dragon but with my family. i don't know what is going on. we went on a cruise in may and since than it seems we are not functioning like a family. no one tries to help me with the bills and yet i have to come up with things to do. i am…
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I got C-Diff. Tummy really Hurtin.. Advice please???
Hey All, Been having mid stomach pains (not cramps) for a week with diarrhea. I knew something was different cause it just wasn't the same kind of diarrhea that I get with chemo. I seen my Onc Tuesday...he said if it didn't stop with the 2 anti-biotics he put me on to call him today and let him know. I turned in poop…
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Here i go again
well today it started again Jorge and Jorgie are fighting again i'm getting worried about the stress that my son is giving his dad . will make this cancer grow omg i'm hating my life right now i try so hard to keep everyone happy but i can't anymore i just want everything to stop . sorry guys
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Integrative Medicine why not ? lecture at md anderson UPDATED added video, best 60min i have seen.
i just found this transcript of an interesting lecture, we can make a difference to our journey. this authors book has been discussed here by myself and others who are interested in improving upon traditional outcomes. i hope you like the post, the lecture and the book. i read it months ago, it gave me great hope. the…
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Time for an Update...
George is doing so much better than in May when he was in the hospital. Since then we have had PET and CT scans. The chemo CPT-11 and Avastin continues to do its job. On the CT scan there was a hazy area by the spleen but on the PET it showed nothing and nothing lit up. His original tumor was right by the spleen and when…
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*UPDATE Dave deBronkart: How We Can Help Each Other
Let's try another title. The response has been underwhelming with the exception of a few. I know this is basically what we do on here but it's nice to see it in action elsewhere. Dave deBronkart: Meet e-Patient Dave. I was checking out some TED Talks on my ROKU (Streaming TV device) and saw this fantastic one called Dave…