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Question for Betsydoglover
Hi Betsy, I have been reading some of your post regarding you will recieve Avastin alone once you finish your other chemo. No disrepect to you or your Doctor treatment but my doctor Oncologist told me that I couldn't recieve Avastin alone because it works better with the other chemo drugs(example Folfox & avastin). I…
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Vacation Celebration
Hi all, We just returned from 10 days on a lake in Maine, where we have vacationed every year for the last 18, in a camp setting with other friends. Last year this time, I had just completed chemo and had an unrelated-to-cancer thyroid removal. I had lost weight, felt run down (and run over!), and had just heard that my…
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Finished w/ Radiation...
Hey Gang, I finally finished my last two shots of Radiation, yesterday and today. I had to stop for 2 weeks, I have never been that sick in my life , the diarrhia I experienced (10 days straight) was quite maddening. I swear, if it went a little longer they were going to have to put me in a rubber room, hopefully w/ a…
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FOLFIRI + AVASTIN Bi-weekly
Is anyone on this same schedule? My father stage IV mets to liver has a 3.5 hour infusion then goes home and the nurse comes to hook him up to a pump/bag of chemo for 44 hours. He had his first treatment 2 weeks ago and next one tomorrow. I guess he tolerated his first one OK, the usual bad taste in mouth, weak, tired,…
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Treatment Options
Hi, My mom was recently diagonosed with Stage IV Colon Cancer with mets to liver. She has multiple tumors on liver. CEA count is 540. She will undergo colon resection on Monday. The doctors say that the spread on the liver is a big concern and they would start chemo after 15-20 days. Has anybody here have a similar…
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for Kerry and Juliababy
Kerry......tonight you are in my rainbow dreams. Susana....We are wishing your dad the very best for wednesday sweetie! luv n huggs, Ross n Jen
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Krispy Kreme ~
Hey board, with all the nutrition talk on here I am really trying to stick to this, BUT yesterday I did have to have a Krispy Kreme doughnut. Do you ever cheat and eat desserts? :o ) Oh I am still waiting on my PET scan results. D ~
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Recovery without treatment?
My mother of 74 yrs old has had colon cancer for two years. It is now at stage four. She has been on 5FU, Avastin,Campasar,& Erbitux. She has not tolerated these treatments well. With the last treatment Erbitux she ended up in hospital for a week with severe diarrhea & nausea. During her stay a cat scan & chest xray were…
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My mom
Hi all, My mom is recovering from her partially successful surgery to remove metastisized colon cancer. She is left with several small tumors throughout the abdomen and liver. She will be starting Folfiri on Sept. 7th. I have several concerns about different issues ..please respond to any or all of them if you can!! 1.…
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prayers needed
Hi all, been a while - sorry. brief history - hubby dx feb 04 stage 4 cc. all tumors surgically removed last year, but he now has a bowel obstruction and is going in for exploratory surg. tomorrow (Mon) afternoon. Please keep us in your prayers and any info /advice about adhesions (they suspect this or tumors) would be…
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Sponger
Struth..I go awol workin for a coupla days n then I come back n see our resident humourist telling everyone his plumbing needs an overhaul! Bob..yah gotta lay off tha pina-coladas! Sorry you are not doin' so well mate. You are the anchorman(references to the sea intentional) of humour here and there is sadness in our…
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I'm back
I spent a week at Cape Cod with my in-laws and 2 other couples. I just got back yestday and I am trying to catch up. As soon as I got off the plane in Houston I was cursing this hot, humid, oppressive city. Cape Cod was PERFECT the entire week. My last night we had a bonfire on the beach. A group next to us was having…
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colostomy
Has anyone had leakage at rectum after having colostomy . My mother has had colostomy for two years and after being in hospital from severe diarrhea and nausea from Erbitux she noticed some discharge from rectum
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to faith
I'm trying (unsuccessfully to respond to Faith's post, so I thought I'd try this.. anyway, don't let your doctors off that easy..they may not "want to talk about it" , but that's thier job. Bud
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PELVIC RADIATION
I have been briefly told in 1 sentence line from a few of these DRs that I work with that radiation to the pelvic area for colon cancer is rarely used. One GI DR who does not know my case stated they only do radiation to the rectum with colon cancer not the pelvis. I told this DR. I had no choice. THe tumor was adhered to…
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ENDOSCOPIES RESULTS,NED
Hello everyone. Even though I do not post often, I do read the message board. I recently was scoped on Tuesday. It has been two years since being dx.with Stage 4 colon cancer,8/20 nodes positive. Ascending colon down to the terminal ileum removed and sigmoid colon removed. Was left with an illesostomy on the right side, a…
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Zoloft question & general freakout
So, now as if having metastatic colon cancer plus anal fissures aren't enough to deal with, apparently I have some astonishingly painful wisdom tooth problem that has the back of my mouth swollen and highly sensitive. My weight has dropped to 158 from 163 in two days, the lowest since high school (all I've been able to eat…
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erbitux for recurrent colon cancer
erbitux
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Pet Scan Results/trans anal excision
Hi everyone,,,,after 2 1/2 days of waiting and bursting with anxiety attacks finally Wednesday afternoon I called the hospital and begged someone to tell me my pet scan results. I knew the surgeon had to of read them. About a half hour later a nurse calls me back to tell me everything looks NORMAL. Thank GOD... I…
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Support Groups
Are there any support groups that meet in the Laurel, Silver Spring area?
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thoughts for Kerry
Kerry is up for scans monday. Sending you a rainbow honey!All our luv and huggs, Ross and Jen
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Rectal Cancer - Support for my Mom
Hello everyone, I'm brand new to this wonderful place of support and am in desperate need of a person who is either going through or has gone through Rectal Cancer to "buddy up" with my mother who is 71 years old and was diagnosed on June the 13th. We have made it through the first 5 weeks of treatment and are now in the…
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need prayers for upcoming ct scan
Well dad's ct scan is scheduled for next Wednesday and as usual I'm sick worrying about it. To make matters worse, he doesn't look well to me and now he told me he lost some weight. That's really all I needed to hear. I can tell he's also worried to death but he's just not the type of person to talk about it, but I see it…
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I'M BA-ACK!!
I know... some of you newer folks are saying "Who the #$%^ is "SpongeBob" " - right? And some of you older members - like Nanuk - who have memory problems (they say that's the SECOND thing to go, Bud...) probably can't recall me either! Sorry I;ve been AWOL - I'm still without a house, but looking like crazy. I left the…
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Need Advice on next step
Hi Everyone, I went with my Dad yesterday for his bi-weekly oncologist appointment. When we found out a few weeks ago that the cancer was back the oncologist sent a sample of his tumor out for testing with Erbitux. As it turns out my Dad's tumor does not express the EGFR protein which is supposedly what the Erbitux is…
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CAMaura
Are you out there? We miss you!!!!!! Are you okay? We want to hear from you honey. Lisa P.
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help in replying to posts
Hi - I'm trying to figure out how to reply to a post...I don't see a button to do that...what am I missing? Sorry!
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relief from after effects of colon surgery
My husband had colon cancer surgery in February. The entire right side of his colon was removed. It was Stage II, and nothing was in his lymph nodes. It appears that they were able to get everything. Since his surgery, of course, it's been a struggle for his system to get back to normal. He's much better now than he was,…
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Another Question????
Hi everybody, Byron had a CT scan last week and his tumors are still responding to the chemo (just finished 12 rounds of FOLFOX with Avastin) but his liver is not ready for a resection yet. My question is ....what does it mean when they say "some of the tumors have calcified"? Has anyone else heard of this happening? We…
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Booked for Vegas!
My wife and I have booked our air and hotel for the Vegas get together. We will arrive Tuesday night and stay thru Friday night. Can't wait! Mike