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NIMAH
NIMAH CSN Member Posts: 9
edited March 2014 in Colorectal Cancer #1
Thanks to all of you who responded. Surgeon gave me the green light to begin treatments...I go Wed. for ct scan with radio onc. Once that is set up I will get my picc line and chemo and radio start at same time...probably start sometime in first few days oc Oct. Interested in surgeon who specializes in low recections...Keith
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  • AuthorUnknown
    AuthorUnknown CSN Member Posts: 1,537 Member
    #2
    Dear Keith,
    I wish you the very best for your treatment. Please do let us know how you are feeling.

    My thoughts and prayers are with you.

    Eleonora
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  • cardinallady
    cardinallady CSN Member Posts: 12
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    Ask around, my surgeon was actually recommended by a competing hospital.Her name is Susan Galandiuk at U of Louisville Hospital. She not only specializes in the resection but is very aggressive in finding and taking out nodes. Good wishes coming your way....Pam
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  • KathiM
    KathiM CSN Member Posts: 8,027 Member
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    Dr. Michael Stamos. University of California, Irvine Medical Center. (714)345-6789 He's the one that all the surgeons in this area of So California send their patients to that are too low..mine was in the first rectal fold. 3% of his patients require a temp bag...only 3%...I never did...lost rectum, sig colon....using my new plumbing the night after surgery....

    Hugs, Kathi
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  • KathiM
    KathiM CSN Member Posts: 8,027 Member
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    KathiM said:

    Dr. Michael Stamos. University of California, Irvine Medical Center. (714)345-6789 He's the one that all the surgeons in this area of So California send their patients to that are too low..mine was in the first rectal fold. 3% of his patients require a temp bag...only 3%...I never did...lost rectum, sig colon....using my new plumbing the night after surgery....

    Hugs, Kathi

    Darn chemo brain! (714) 456-7890. I promise. He's the chief of surgery. Sigh....be gone, chemo brain, be gone!
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