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    Colorectal Cancer

     

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    • User: "HowardJ"

      Thoughts on Relay

      I never really volunteered for anything before...I have a demanding job and work was always busy enough for me. Ever since being diagnosed last December I've wanted to somehow help others with cancer.…
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      0 point
      Started by HowardJ
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "spongebob"

      WOULDN'T YA JUST KNOW IT!

      I come back from being AWOL and the next thing I know I'm in the hospital and unable to post. I had some emergency surgery done on Thursday, came home late Friday and I'll have to go back in for more …
      55 views
      17 comments
      0 point
      Started by spongebob
      Most recent by 2bhealed
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "swapneel"

      Update

      My mom had a surgery last monday. The surgery went very well and my mother had a full recovery in 6 days. No complications at all. They found 12/15 lymphnodes positive. The next step is chemo that wou…
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      3 comments
      0 point
      Started by swapneel
      Most recent by jana11
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "livin"

      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…
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      3 comments
      0 point
      Started by livin
      Most recent by livin
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "jsabol"

      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…
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      4 comments
      0 point
      Started by jsabol
      Most recent by kerry
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "BusterBrown"

      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 …
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      6 comments
      0 point
      Started by BusterBrown
      Most recent by Kanort
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "midnte0708"

      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 treatm…
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      2 comments
      0 point
      Started by midnte0708
      Most recent by HisJoy
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "swapneel"

      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 t…
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      5 comments
      0 point
      Started by swapneel
      Most recent by swapneel
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "kangatoo"

      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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      1 comments
      0 point
      Started by kangatoo
      Most recent by kerry
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "Doreen65"

      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 wai…
      311 views
      7 comments
      0 point
      Started by Doreen65
      Most recent by 2bhealed
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "faith05"

      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 treatme…
      4 views
      5 comments
      0 point
      Started by faith05
      Most recent by 2bhealed
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "themis01"

      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 Fol…
      2 views
      1 comments
      0 point
      Started by themis01
      Most recent by chynabear
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "sallyjoy"

      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 (Mo…
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      4 comments
      0 point
      Started by sallyjoy
      Most recent by Kanort
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "kangatoo"

      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 d…
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      2 comments
      0 point
      Started by kangatoo
      Most recent by Kanort
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "jana11"

      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…
      1 views
      8 comments
      0 point
      Started by jana11
      Most recent by jsabol
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "faith05"

      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 …
      3 views
      3 comments
      0 point
      Started by faith05
      Most recent by JohnWest
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "nanuk"

      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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      1 comments
      0 point
      Started by nanuk
      Most recent by spongebob
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "FRANTIC"

      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 …
      13 views
      2 comments
      0 point
      Started by FRANTIC
      Most recent by jana11
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "FRANTIC"

      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. Asce…
      15 views
      7 comments
      0 point
      Started by FRANTIC
      Most recent by jana11
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "rthornton"

      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 …
      279 views
      7 comments
      0 point
      Started by rthornton
      Most recent by jana11
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "abcdef"

      erbitux for recurrent colon cancer

      erbitux
      4 views
      1 comments
      0 point
      Started by abcdef
      Most recent by slammer
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "Doreen65"

      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…
      4 views
      4 comments
      0 point
      Started by Doreen65
      Most recent by cheer3
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "Bonnie2005"

      Support Groups

      Are there any support groups that meet in the Laurel, Silver Spring area?
      18 views
      3 comments
      0 point
      Started by Bonnie2005
      Most recent by spongebob
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "kangatoo"

      thoughts for Kerry

      Kerry is up for scans monday. Sending you a rainbow honey!All our luv and huggs, Ross and Jen
      3 views
      8 comments
      0 point
      Started by kangatoo
      Most recent by kerry
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "Caligirl"

      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 …
      2 views
      2 comments
      0 point
      Started by Caligirl
      Most recent by alihamilton
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "juliababy"

      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 …
      2 views
      6 comments
      0 point
      Started by juliababy
      Most recent by kangatoo
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "spongebob"

      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.…
      10 views
      11 comments
      0 point
      Started by spongebob
      Most recent by HowardJ
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "deneenb"

      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…
      8 views
      5 comments
      0 point
      Started by deneenb
      Most recent by themis01
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "scouty"

      CAMaura

      Are you out there? We miss you!!!!!! Are you okay? We want to hear from you honey. Lisa P.
      2 views
      2 comments
      0 point
      Started by scouty
      Most recent by kerry
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "nicksgirl"

      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!
      3 views
      2 comments
      0 point
      Started by nicksgirl
      Most recent by kangatoo
      Colorectal Cancer
     

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