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Plan of action
Hello again, I have posted a few questions to this site and have had great responses that have helped my family to "navigate" through my mom's treatment. (My mom was originally diagnosed in Jan 03 with colon cancer in the sigmoid colon with 4 lymph nodes affected. She had a local recurrence in June 03 and again in Feb 04.…
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Food Tasting Funny...
Happy Friday Everyone~ My Dad who has had 3 treatments of FOLFOX said that food is tasing bad. Has anyone had a similar experience? Can anything be done to help? God Bless and ((Hugs)) Michele
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Colon to Liver
My husband's colon cancer nightmare began almost 2 years ago. He had colon resection, no chemo follow-up (unfortunately). 15 months later, he started chemo since by then his CEA had risen dramatically and PET was showing small mass in liver. Chemo for 10 months, then stopped as his CEA began rising more. Now besides PET,…
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Sharon Osbourne Show
Hi Everyone, Did anyone know that we were going to have 3 of our stars on The Sharon Osbourne Show today!!! Now we just need the three of them to come back and give us all the juice. Hey guys tell us all about going to Mortons Steak House together, It must have been a blast to meet each other. Like Judy , Stacy was the…
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Miss Nosy wants to know everything!
So...caught the Judy, Bob and Stacy Show today. You guys were so cool and professional. I would have had a major case of stage fright besides not having a thing to wear. Unlike General Bob with that chest full of lettuce. And Miss Stacy sashaying around in her sexy little flowery number. And Judy sporting a crisp haircut…
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a little nervous
Hi, this is the first time I've ever been to this website. I feel like I should ask some people who have colon cancer about the condition I'm in right now. I am going to start from the beginning with a shortened version of my story. I am 22 years old and about 2 1/2 yrs ago I started having bloody stools, abdominal…
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test results
Well the results are in ...my dr said that things look alright but to be on the safe side we will watch things closer just to make sure.
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Need Support - Last stage of disease
I'm looking for a support group for my husband, who is in his last stage of colon cancer. There are no more treatments for him. We live in the State of Illinois (Waukegan) and would love to chat we people who are going through the same situation as he is. As a caregiver, I need support as well. Please help. Thank you
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So mad!!!!!
Hey you all. I do not post here often and it has been quite some while since I have posted. I, myself, do not have colon cancer but my precious mom dies at the age of 46 of it. I am 29. We just realized that a family friend of the age of 47 has been given 2 months to live. SHe also has colon cancer. She went through…
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help with coping
Hi all-my husband aged 31 has just been diagnosed very unexpectedly with rectal cancer with no family history. We are both doctors which makes coping very difficult as I suppose we see the worst case scenarios after this sort of diagnosis. He is due to start chemo/radiotherapy next week followed by surgery 6 weeks later.…
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Recurrence in the Colon??
My dad was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer in May 2002. He had surgery in June and July to remove everything (including one spot on his liver). Then, he received chemo (campostar) for 14 months. He received a clean PET scan in December 2003. In March 2004, his CT scan showed some spots on his liver and a spot on his…
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Colon Cancer
I am 72 and this is my third time with cancer. I have just started my treatment and I am in my rest time now. I will start taking the pills again on thurs. I get mad so easy at my husband and then I am so sorry for doing it. I need to sleep 2 hours a day and he thinks I am sleeping my life away Help me ok
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newly diagnosed--help!!!
My 68 year old mother was just diagnosed with Stage III, one lymph node of 15 involved. The PET scan for the liver is next week. The oncologist is recommending 5-flurouralil and leucovorin. We don't know what we're looking at...doctor said that the only side effect would be diaherrea. For some reason I think there will be…
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stressed out
hi, i'm new to this site. i was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2000. had laparoscopic colon resection no lymph nodes involved. my past colonoscopy's have been good but i have one comming up end of april and i'm getting so stressed out about it ..that its all i think about! i keep all this inside and no one can know the…
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Things Can Just Change from Day to Day
While my overall news is still good based on two consecutive clean CAT and PET Scans done on Bert, a little fly has once again entered my ointment! Received a call yesterday from Dr. Lenz's office that they want Bert to do a colonoscopy. When we last saw Dr. Lenz to get the results of 3/16 PET Infusion with CAT overlay,…
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Local Recurrence
Hi - My mother has been recently diagnosed with her second local recurrence of colon cancer. She was originally Stage III (4 of 20 nodes were positive). The doctors seem to assure us that the recurrence is local and they plan to do a resection again. Has anyone out there had a similar experience? We are starting to get…
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stressed out
hi, i'm new to this site. i was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2000. had laparoscopic colon resection no lymph nodes involved. my past colonoscopy's have been good but i have one comming up end of april and i'm getting so stressed out about it ..that its all i think about! i keep all this inside and no one can know the…
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Need Information
Hi, I'm new to this group. I had rectal cancer, stage II in July, 2003. Had colon resection, no postive lymph nodes, no spread, good margins. No further treatment recommened. It shouldn't have come back, but it did to everyone's surprise. I was diagnosed with recurrent cancer in Jan, 2004. I have taking continuous 5FU by…
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Update
I just had another colonoscopy yesterday. They only found 2 polyps which were removed and sent to path. Just wanted to let everyone know that you can beat the odds. When I had my first colonoscopy they found a mass along with hundreds of polyps. Second colonoscopy the mass was found to be gone and 9 polyps were removed…
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other problems
its been awhile since ive been on here.i used to go by starlight1968 now its desiree1968.i have been getting sick alot lately.im scared to call my cancer doctor because i dont want to face the possibility that my cancer could be back.it will be 2 years in oct. since i had surgery.is this scared feeling normal.
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2 years today!!!!
Hi Everyone, Today is a celebration of life!! It's 2 years today since I had my surgery for a stage 3 rectal cancer with 10 positive lymph nodes. So far I feel great and everything appears to be normal. I was never much of a writer so I never posted a lot, but I came here everyday to see how all of you were doing. I just…
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I almost forgot I had cancer
This message is to all the nice folks who continuously post messages and answers to questions on this website. One year ago (March 19) I was diagnosed with colon cancer and had surgery to remove 1/3 of my colon the next day. I had a speedy recovery. I regularly read messages on this website and asked lots of my own…
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Good News!!
Hi Everyone, I just wanted to share some good news with all of you. I'll give a brief history for the new comers. I'm 39. I had a hysterectomy/bowel resection in June 03. The pathology showed that the cancer had started on my colon near the cecum and spread to my right ovary. I had no symptoms and no family history of…
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Possible liver metastis
Can anyone tell me what I can do? I was diagnosed 2 years ago and they have yet to give me a clean bill of help. They have been looking at my liver for about a year. They first found a couple of spots that were tiny on my liver;a couple of months after that it was a dime size. Then for about 6 months they were stable. Now,…
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Book
I just picked up a book at the Onc's office: Diagnosis: "Cancer/Your Guide to the first months of Healthy Survivorship" by Wendy Schlesel Harpham,M.D. This book is especially a good read for newly diagnosed-(all types) cancer. It covers most FAQ's in clear, layman's language from A-Z Available at Amazon-…
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Need advice - what's is son's risk?
My ex-husband was recently diagnosed with colon cancer. From what people are saying I suspect it's stage III (one positive lumph node and 80% obstruction when surgery was done). No colostomy required - had resection and will be having chemo (weekly or every other week) for 4-6 months. With "dynamics" I'm basing this on…
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Treatment Options
Hi - I am new to this site - I think this is a fabulous way for cancer patients and survivors to keep each others spirits up. My mother was diangosed with colon cancer in Jan. 03 and has since had two local recurrences. This time, the doctor suggested that we might want to consider more aggressive treatment. Has anyone had…
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What is Camptosar?
Does anyone know anything about camptosar? And, what is the expected result of using it?
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CEA as a marker
I just found out from my oncologist Friday that my CEA after colon surgery was 1.0 although I had two small mets to the liver (one was removed for a biopsy and confirmed as cancer). I met with my surgical oncologist yesterday and he wants to leave the other met on the liver to see how chemo will work (I start friday with…
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Apology to grandma
Dearest grandma, It has been brought to my attention that my tone of my post may have been rather "blame the victim". I truly am sorry if this was how it was received by you. I am writing this without having read any other replies as I am horrified that I may have caused you emotional pain by my carelessness. My deepest…