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primary peritoneal?
A group of us women are terrified for our dear friend. She was resently diagnosed and is visiting her first oncologist tomorrow. We have read that the debulking surgery is the intial tratment done prior to chemo. Tumors were not located using a PET scan. We understand that merely means that the tumors are under 2cm.…
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Next round of testing....
Just an update... New: weird, soft, lump on my left ankle (disappears when I'm not standing)...not a blood clot...Doc has no clue MRI scheduled for Dec. 14. Also scheduled for Dec. 14: Mammogram (routine) 6 month blood draw: Jan. 5 6 month CT scan, abdo, pelvis, chest: January 12 6 month Onc. appt: January 17 7 month Gyn…
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Good news I think
Mom and I went to the oncologist today. Her tumor markers with chemo only are down to 102, she's had two chemo's. They started at 770. So we are hoping and praying that the chemo will get it in remission before she even has surgery. The onc said the gyn/onc was very hesitant to do surgery on her because it might be…
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Second surgery anyone?
Hi ladies, Mom had her initial surgery Sept 3rd and it was unsuccessful due to the location of the tumor. It was pretty well contained but it was too close to the blood supply to tell where the tumor started and the blood line ended. Today Mom had her fifth round of chemo. After four rounds her CA-125 number is 4,056 which…
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Any suggestions for fighting OVC through diet?
I am at almost 3 months out from surgery and 3 chemo treatments for Stage IV . I have struggled with weight for years, and now wonder if it had anything to do with the crap that's probably been going on in this 54 year old body for years. I struggled with infertility to have my son for 9 years and had surgery for…
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need advise
a very close friend of mine has stage 4 ovarian cancer,any thing i can do to help her.i have myself been though chemo and radiation for lung cancer ,i have tryed to help her any way i can,but i know it has spread to a lot of other places.so what do i do? I am tring to keep her as up as poss.what do you think/
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CT results
Mom had a ct scan November 22nd, we got the results today and this is what they said. Mom has no fluid in her lungs or surrounding her tumour. The mass has not grown. I was hoping they would say it shrunk, I really want them to try again to remove it but it doesn't sound like that is going to happen. We were told the…
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Hospital bashing
Does anyone remember me posting something awhile back about a friend who bashed my cancer center? She spoke about my hospital receiving federal funding and this was influencing their diagnosis. A friend of her's has a spouse who had went to my well known cancer center for treatment. They told him he was terminal. She took…
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anyone with mixed mullerian cancer
my wife has this type of cancer.the doctors said two years survial
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Dieting while on tx
My md says not to diet while getting chemo but i am gaining weight again. I lost 20 pounds last year and gained it all back. I try to eat healhly but i am hungry all the time it seems.
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Diarrhea
I was diagnosed with stage 2 Ovarian Cancer two years ago. I went through a hysterectomy and chemotherapy. In the year and a half since I finished chemo I have been battling diarrhea. My CA 125 has been very constant, at or close to 5, and my overall health has been improving steadily, but I can't trust my bowels anymore!…
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Dieting while on tx
My md says not to diet while getting chemo but i am gaining weight again. I lost 20 pounds last year and gained it all back. I try to eat healhly but i am hungry all the time it seems.
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Dieting while on tx
My md says not to diet while getting chemo but i am gaining weight again. I lost 20 pounds last year and gained it all back. I try to eat healhly but i am hungry all the time it seems.
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Worried about my mom catching cold
Ok, this may be silly, but I know that mom's white blood counts are down. They aren't too terribly low, but lower than normal. And just this evening I've started running a small fever and having a sore throat, and I'm the primary care taker. How worried should I be about this? I've got to go to her house tomorrow and set…
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December is break time
for me and my body. After my drama in the chemo room last week, I did go in for a heart US, and everything checked out fine. My doctor thinks it was "overall fatigue" and suggested that I take some time off to refresh. I am going to take him up on it, and so I might not be checking in so often in December. Over the last…
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Feeling scared
A friend of mine who also has OVCA doesn't have much longer to live. Hospice was called in last week. She was diagnosed one year before me, she didn't even last 3 years!! This news has me really shaken up and freaked out. It will be 2 years since my diagnosis in April 2011. I'm only 32, so I have age on my side but I'm…
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Saundra is at peace
This is Joe, Saundra's husband. Sandy died peacefully at 1:30 p.m. CST after 27 days in the oncology department and an additional 18 days in the hospice unit. Before she left us, she was visited by all three of our children, their spouses, and all six grandchildren—ages 14-22. Her courageous battle ended just as our…
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ca 125 test
what does the result numbers mean
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Doxil
This is my 3rd treatment for OC, I was less than 6 months in remission when my numbers flew off the chart. I had my CT Scan and it showed 3 small tumors 1 in the pelvic, 1 in the Lrg intestine and 1 in the omentum. the Dr has me on Doxil now since I can't go back on Carbo/Gemzar or Carbo /Taxol ( due to nerve damage in my…
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so sad and upset
I posted a while back about my grandma. She was diagnosed with PPC in Oct 2005. She started carbo and tax right away and lasted 3 1/2 years before her relapse. Then they did some rounds of carbo. She relapsed again 10 months later and they did 4 rounds of doxil. She relapsed again after only 2 months. She has decided to…
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Holidays
Anyone have any ideas on how to manage the holidays while on tx. Sometimes I am too tired to shop and decorate.
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Advice for Linda
Having just read the heart-rending testimonies to Saundra from her husband Joe, and thinking about Bonnie, too, and further the post just recently on a 12 year survivor journey...want you all to know how much appreciated your encouragement has been to Linda and I during the last 5 years. I'm writing today for some specific…
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first time contributor
I have been reading this board for awhile and decided I should contribute. I was diagnosed on June 15th 2007 with Stage 1V ovarian cancer. Fluid on my lung was cancerous. I had 6 infusions of carbo/taxol and have been NED since. I know that this is the kind of news I needed to read when I was first diagnosed and hope that…
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Drama in the chemo room
A bit of drama in the chemo room yesteday. After a few minutes of the decadron and anti-nausea pre-meds went into my drip, i began to feel a tightness in my chest. At first it was very mild, but quickly became a pain, and then more intense like my heart was being wrung out. Then a wave of numbness down my arm, and then…
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So confused about mom's cancer
Ladies, I really need some help here. Ok, we've been told that mom's CT scans showed nothing in the way of any tumors in her abdomen. Her liver was unremarkable. But she has some thickening in her uterus. She also had severe ascites, that had to be drained four times before her first chemo. And it showed adenocarcinoma,…
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Afraid
I am really afraid right now. When I went to the bathroom to urinate today, I am seeing pink. I have put a call into my doctor but I am just scared to death.
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Pray for my niece think she has cancer
My niece just lost her Mother to cancer and now she may have cervical cancer, she get ultra sound the 10th if yuou can all pray for her
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Great NEWS- re: mom's surgery
The Dr told her she had the "best scenario she could of had" after surgery--- she did NOT have any colon issues and her spleen did not have to be taken! She had a hysterectomy and a tumor taken- and a few more chemos will take care of that. She needed a day to really recover after the surgery..lots of nausea- but it's now…
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Wishing
all to have a Happy Thanksgiving with their family and friends and to enjoy their time together and not to think about what we are going through!! Toast to all, Joan
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I hate Insomnia :)
it's 4am.I'm up for the 6th time tonight. you would think that with all the meds I'm on for neuropathy,hot flashes,leg pain,joint/body aches,stomach cramps and so forth, that one of them would help me sleep!!?? No such luck!!! I wake up 5-7 times a night. I don't want to add more meds to what i'm already taking. Isn't…