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    Colorectal Cancer

     

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    • User: "andreae"

      Metastasis

      Hi! I was diagnosed with stage 3 rectal cancer in January of this year. I underwent radiation and chemo(5FU), followed by a surgery which included a colostomy and a partial vaginectomy. I finished my …
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      0 point
      Started by andreae
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "StacyGleaso"

      HOW TO USE THE CHAT ROOM IN 25 WORDS OR LESS (more or less!)

      For those of you who have heard the buzz of how cool the chat room is, you're right! It's all that and more! However, learning how to "enter" the room is sometimes intimidating, as well as impossible.…
      51 views
      10 comments
      0 point
      Started by StacyGleaso
      Most recent by 2bhealed
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "hoosier_kitten"

      Time for 2nd cycle!

      Hi again all! I have a minor annoyance and wonder if anyone else has had this problem. After surgery when they took out the staples out, the incision opened up almost completely. after nearly 2 months…
      13 views
      3 comments
      0 point
      Started by hoosier_kitten
      Most recent by hoosier_kitten
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "2bhealed"

      who lives in a pineapple?

      Under the sea.....Spongebob!!! Square Pants!!! So SB when are you gonna get into the chat room for crying out loud??? Stace and I need to more semi-colons in there. Find your way soon ok? peace, emily
      34 views
      6 comments
      0 point
      Started by 2bhealed
      Most recent by Tatie
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "tds76"

      Radiated Bowel

      I am 45 yr old female cancer survivor, chemo/radiation 6 mos ago. am playing waiting game, and have a question... Does anyone know about or have had problems with a radiated bowel (or irradiated bowel…
      38 views
      2 comments
      0 point
      Started by tds76
      Most recent by KrisS
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "hoosier_kitten"

      Hello everyone!

      I'm so glad I found this page! On May 14th, much to my surprise, I was diagonsed with either colon or ovarian cancer, big tumors in both areas. On May 31, 2003, I had emergency surgery and part of my …
      28 views
      9 comments
      0 point
      Started by hoosier_kitten
      Most recent by spongebob
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "tams"

      burns

      I was doing a search, my doctor told me that this is not a common cancer? It seems to me it is. The 3rd degree burns, the pain from the inside of the anal area. Not being able to hold no#2 at all. The…
      12 views
      1 comments
      0 point
      Started by tams
      Most recent by 7319
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "Tatie"

      Colon surgery aftermath

      I had a kidney stone removed few weeks ago, and the doctor advised me that if you have a part of your colon removed, you are prone to form kidney stones because of incomplete abosrbtion due to not hav…
      67 views
      11 comments
      0 point
      Started by Tatie
      Most recent by Tatie
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "mopar"

      COULD I HAVE COLON CANCER?

      I am a three-year survivor of ovarian cancer. For the last 5 days I have had loose/mucousy stools, cramps like diahrrhea. Seems to come at different times, no real consistency, although I will notice …
      57 views
      4 comments
      0 point
      Started by mopar
      Most recent by spongebob
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "Tatie"

      Cancer News

      CHICAGO – A gene present in nearly one in eight people is the most commonly inherited cancer susceptibility gene identified so far, increasing cancer risk in carriers by 26 percent, according to a stu…
      12 views
      2 comments
      0 point
      Started by Tatie
      Most recent by Tatie
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "Tatie"

      Beat cancer

      http://health.yahoo.com/health/centers/cancer/6684.html "The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and having cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would …
      47 views
      1 comments
      0 point
      Started by Tatie
      Most recent by fandaj
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "Tatie"

      Colon Cleansers - useless?

      Colon Cleansing & Cancer Risk (Interview with Bernard Levin, M.D., June 3, 2003) They are everywhere. Ads on television, on the Internet and in newspapers tout the virtues of colon cleansing supplemen…
      273 views
      8 comments
      0 point
      Started by Tatie
      Most recent by 2bhealed
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "mc2001"

      my research

      Hello Everyone! I am doing my own amateur *research* on the types of medicines and chemotherapy people have had or are currently taking. If you wouldn't mind giving me the names and even the dosage, b…
      13 views
      4 comments
      0 point
      Started by mc2001
      Most recent by 2bhealed
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "Chrisswife"

      Surgery Friday

      My 32 y/o husband was diagnosed with stage 2/3 rectal cancer in April. They gave him 5FU, Oxiplatin and Leucovorin, as well as 5 weeks of radiation. Treatment ended early June and he is finally having…
      31 views
      4 comments
      0 point
      Started by Chrisswife
      Most recent by KrisS
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "fandaj"

      Has anybody had adhesions after surgery?

      I had surgery for colon cancer March 20, 2003. About a week ago I started feeling a sort of strain or pulling about 3 inches from my surgery scar. Friends of mine who have had surgery in the past said…
      21 views
      1 comments
      0 point
      Started by fandaj
      Most recent by Tatie
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "livin"

      Radiation Damage again

      Hi everyone I have posted here before with other problems due to radiation. My problem started 6/27/03 first time being constipated since my left hemicolectomy for stage 3 Colon Cancer. I was diagnose…
      26 views
      6 comments
      0 point
      Started by livin
      Most recent by livin
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "Tatie"

      Body and Soul

      Does anyone watch Body and Sould series on PAX (in New York it's on Sundays at 10:00)? It's about an alternative doctor working in the hospital with conventional medicine doctors, all kinds of conflic…
      8 views
      0 point
      Started by Tatie
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "iloveron"

      need info on Xeloda Oxaliplatin pyridoxime raspberries

      Hi to all. My husband will start xeloda with Oxaliplatin and pyridoxine to treat stage iv colon cancer. Has anybody some advice for us? Also, is anybody trying the new rage, black raspberries? I've le…
      15 views
      1 comments
      0 point
      Started by iloveron
      Most recent by terrical
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "marisadj"

      Oxiliplatin-too soon to switch??

      hi everyone, My dad is 47 and diagnosed with stage iv in June 2003. He had surgery to remove colon tumor and mets to liver is inoperable. He is a fighter, and we are not giving up- but it seems odd th…
      48 views
      3 comments
      0 point
      Started by marisadj
      Most recent by KrisS
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "shubunkin"

      bleeding

      hello, I know this may sound gross but I was constipated for about 3 days and when I finally went there was blood on the toilet paper and a little in the toilet. That was yesterday and today. I have a…
      65 views
      6 comments
      0 point
      Started by shubunkin
      Most recent by KrisS
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "happygirl"

      my pappy has colon cancer

      I was 25 when my Pappy was told he had cancer. I was there when we got the news and had to call my mom and tell her the bad news. It tore me up inside for the past 3 years. I love my Pappy and he also…
      26 views
      1 comments
      0 point
      Started by happygirl
      Most recent by shubunkin
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "jwerner"

      Stage IV Colon Cancer, Need Info.

      My mom, age 62, was diagnosed with Stage IV Colon Cancer, and get this...the doctor didn't tell us this. She had surgery in March to remove the tumor from her colon, she started Chemo in May, and all …
      29 views
      10 comments
      0 point
      Started by jwerner
      Most recent by emubit
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "viv123"

      Alternative versus Chemotherapy

      Hi everyone! My husband has read that taking vitamins (anti-oxidants) while having chemo is not a good thing. Does anyone understand this? And why? Also, is there any hope with alternative medicine ve…
      19 views
      7 comments
      0 point
      Started by viv123
      Most recent by emubit
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "viv123"

      Stage D

      Hi again everyone... My husband's Pathology Report apparently says that he is a STAGE D. I read on the ACS that the Dukes rating only goes to a Stage C. What in the world does that mean? Does it mean …
      20 views
      3 comments
      0 point
      Started by viv123
      Most recent by emubit
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "aprilgreen25"

      I Need Someone to Talk to.

      Hi. My name is April and my 29 year old husband, Michael, was diagnosed with rectal cancer in January of this year. His first oncologist reccomended that he do chemo and radiation first, and then surg…
      110 views
      11 comments
      0 point
      Started by aprilgreen25
      Most recent by jatag
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "fandaj"

      Sore tongue and trouble swallowing

      Hi to all the regulars out there. Your advice has all been helpful so far. I have had 8 chemo treatments and during the last treatment I did not suck on ice chips during the session. (That was advice …
      58 views
      5 comments
      0 point
      Started by fandaj
      Most recent by jatag
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "dylan626"

      Oxaliplatin; Results are in.

      As some of you may know, an international symposium on clinical cancer was held this week in Chicago. Lots of new data on treatment of colon cancer. The new biotech drugs have been making a lot of new…
      64 views
      8 comments
      0 point
      Started by dylan626
      Most recent by osborne
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "meaningofcancer"

      cancer and meaning in life

      Hello, I am a graduate student in psychology at Ohio State University and I would very much appreciate your help. I am studying how a cancer diagnosis leads people to re-evaluate meaning in their live…
      8 views
      1 comments
      0 point
      Started by meaningofcancer
      Most recent by spongebob
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "taraHK"

      Thanks - waiting game

      Thanks to Stacy and VC for your replies to my message below about entering the waiting game. Your replies helped. Thanks also to the folk who welcomed me when I tried to enter the chat room the other …
      12 views
      3 comments
      0 point
      Started by taraHK
      Most recent by vcavanagh
      Colorectal Cancer
    • User: "wicca12"

      DIAGNOSED WITH STAGE IV

      Hello Recently my dad (54 year-old) was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer with metastasis to the liver. He was operated and has a "permanent" colostomy. He has recovered really fast, and actually i…
      18 views
      4 comments
      0 point
      Started by wicca12
      Most recent by marisadj
      Colorectal Cancer
     

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