clear cell survivors

sunbow
sunbow Member Posts: 1
edited March 2014 in Ovarian Cancer #1
Are any of you clear cell survivors? I am almost 2 years post chemo for clear cell and would like to talk to other survivors.
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  • diana0903
    diana0903 Member Posts: 4
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    Hi Sunbow,
    Yes I am a clear cell ovarian cancer survivor stage 1C. One year chemo anniversary will be 1/9/05. Feel free to email me to chat at dedosmann@hotmail.com.
    Happy Surviving!!!
    Diana
  • juneaugirl
    juneaugirl Member Posts: 12
    #4
    Hey, there's more of us out there! I, too, am a clear cell survivor. 1C and finished chemo 1 year and 2 days ago. I'm in remission and am getting my port out the end of the month. (WOO HOO!! Happy 'bout that!) Feel free to email me at this site. My home email gets too full and my husband sometimes gets a little delete-happy.
  • kschzcake
    kschzcake Member Posts: 13
    #5
    juneaugirl said:

    Hey, there's more of us out there! I, too, am a clear cell survivor. 1C and finished chemo 1 year and 2 days ago. I'm in remission and am getting my port out the end of the month. (WOO HOO!! Happy 'bout that!) Feel free to email me at this site. My home email gets too full and my husband sometimes gets a little delete-happy.

    My mom was diagnosed with clear cell IIB, grade 2, a few months ago. She just finished her 6th chemo and has 2 more to go. I'm glad to see that you're both doing well. My mom also seems to being doing well. Her CA-125 has gone from over 3,000 prior to surgery to 7. She loves her gyn/onc and he seems to be very optimistic. He hasn't made any issue out of the fact her cancer is clear cell. Her regular gyn said that there was no scientific evidence suggesting that clear cell had any different prognosis from the other kinds. What have you been told?
  • sakura121
    sakura121 Member Posts: 2
    #6
    kschzcake said:

    My mom was diagnosed with clear cell IIB, grade 2, a few months ago. She just finished her 6th chemo and has 2 more to go. I'm glad to see that you're both doing well. My mom also seems to being doing well. Her CA-125 has gone from over 3,000 prior to surgery to 7. She loves her gyn/onc and he seems to be very optimistic. He hasn't made any issue out of the fact her cancer is clear cell. Her regular gyn said that there was no scientific evidence suggesting that clear cell had any different prognosis from the other kinds. What have you been told?

    I was diagnosed with clear
    I was diagnosed with clear cell IIIA 2 month ago, onc suggest do IP chemo and combined with IV chemo, anybody did IP chemo?
    Onc said I need do another surgery to implant catheter for IP chemo.
  • ivyrose
    ivyrose Member Posts: 9
    #7
    sakura121 said:

    I was diagnosed with clear
    I was diagnosed with clear cell IIIA 2 month ago, onc suggest do IP chemo and combined with IV chemo, anybody did IP chemo?
    Onc said I need do another surgery to implant catheter for IP chemo.

    clear cell
    I have just had surgery and had a large clear cell tumor removed 2 weeks ago. Starting chemo tomarrow. Anybody else using temsirolimus + carboplatin + paclitaxel treatment. Statge IIIc clear cell. Please contact me with how you are doing.
  • srwruns
    srwruns Member Posts: 343
    #8
    ivyrose said:

    clear cell
    I have just had surgery and had a large clear cell tumor removed 2 weeks ago. Starting chemo tomarrow. Anybody else using temsirolimus + carboplatin + paclitaxel treatment. Statge IIIc clear cell. Please contact me with how you are doing.

    Hi, I am clear cell 1c. I
    Hi, I am clear cell 1c. I finished standard carbo/taxol 3 months ago. So far so good. My hair is just starting to grow back. I'm not familiar with temsirolimus chemo. Where are you being treated? Is is a clinical study adding that chemo? They just started a clinical trial adding something to the carbo taxol where I was treated but I was too far into my treatment to have it added.
  • pjdreams
    pjdreams Member Posts: 77
    #9
    Hello
    I am clear cell 1C diagnosed first in Aug 2009. Had recurrence last fall, with 2nd look surgery followed by major debulking surgery in March 2011. they were unable to remove all the tumors, some are still embedded in bowels and colon. Poor prognosis. I'm now on doxil every month.

    Even though I was stage1C, the gyn/onc says it's the clear cell part that is very aggressive and deadly.
  • carolenk
    carolenk Member Posts: 907 Member
    #10
    pjdreams said:

    Hello
    I am clear cell 1C diagnosed first in Aug 2009. Had recurrence last fall, with 2nd look surgery followed by major debulking surgery in March 2011. they were unable to remove all the tumors, some are still embedded in bowels and colon. Poor prognosis. I'm now on doxil every month.

    Even though I was stage1C, the gyn/onc says it's the clear cell part that is very aggressive and deadly.

    Torisel
    Torisel (temsirolimus) is used for kidney clear cell cancer & I think it is showing promise for ovarian clear cell cancer. This chemo can cause high blood sugar & high cholesterol. I am not sure if the side effects are reversible.

    Carolen
  • Cafewoman53
    Cafewoman53 Member Posts: 735 Member
    #11
    Clear cell
    Are you all just clear cell ? My pathology report said clear cell and serous is that better or worse than just clear cell? I have not read about anyone with both and would like to hear there are others out there.( but if it is worse I would not really want to have company)
    Colleen
  • tjpt16
    tjpt16 Member Posts: 27
    #12
    sakura121 said:

    I was diagnosed with clear
    I was diagnosed with clear cell IIIA 2 month ago, onc suggest do IP chemo and combined with IV chemo, anybody did IP chemo?
    Onc said I need do another surgery to implant catheter for IP chemo.

    Clear Cell too...question about Essiac Tea
    I was diagnosed with stage 4 clear cell in Nov. 2009. I'm doing well. My goal is to live until 2050 at least. Nobody has ever told me my stage and I never asked. I just saw it inadvertently on a medical report. I felt that I was going to survive and so knowing the stage was irrelevant. Maybe I was just fooling myself. I feel that sometimes when people hear what stage a cancer patient is in they put that person in a box and determine their survivability status based on that. Everyone is different.

    I first received treatment at MD Anderson in Houston for nine months....carbo/taxol, then debulking surgery (took all my girlie parts), then radiation in summmer 2010. I still had a tiny bit on a para-aortic lymph node. I returned to work in Japan in August 2011 and have continued treatment there; immuntherapy 3X a week, first chemo in Japan was CPT11 and nedaplatin for three rounds - weekly for three weeks and one week off each round, then every two weeks beginning in January I had a 24 hour infusion of CPT11 and took an etoposide pill everyday. Now I'm taking TS1, a pill that's a derivative of 5FU. He plans to continue with CPT11 after a bit. My tumors have slowly grown since I returned to Japan. I'm wondering why my doctor wants to stick with CPT11. Clear cell is more prevalent in Japan and lots of research on it is being done here. My doctor at MD Anderson felt very confident that I would have access to excellent treatment in Japan.

    This weekend I'm heading to the Cancer Treatment Center of America in Tulsa and will have my first appt. on Monday. I'm very interested in trying new chemotherapy and so was very glad to hear about Torisel. There's another one given to kidney clear cell patients that is being tried for ovarian cancer. It's called Sunitinib. I know that CTCA has had mixed reviews in discussions here, but I am interested in their holistic approach to treatment.

    Has anyone been drinking Rene's Tea aka Essiac Tea? How is it? Any effects good or bad?

    Take care, everyone.
    Teresa
  • anicca
    anicca Member Posts: 334 Member
    #13
    Cafewoman53 said:

    Clear cell
    Are you all just clear cell ? My pathology report said clear cell and serous is that better or worse than just clear cell? I have not read about anyone with both and would like to hear there are others out there.( but if it is worse I would not really want to have company)
    Colleen

    Colleen, mine is mixed:
    Colleen, mine is mixed: clear cell, serous, and epithelial. I have read that mixed has a somewhat better prognosis, but I couldn't nail my doctor down, though I really didn't try too hard. He is very upbeat, and I need that.
  • Cafewoman53
    Cafewoman53 Member Posts: 735 Member
    #14
    anicca said:

    Colleen, mine is mixed:
    Colleen, mine is mixed: clear cell, serous, and epithelial. I have read that mixed has a somewhat better prognosis, but I couldn't nail my doctor down, though I really didn't try too hard. He is very upbeat, and I need that.

    How funny
    I asked my Dr too whether mixed was better or worse and she was pretty vauge also. Either they don't know or they don't want to give us bad news that may or may not apply in our case.
    Colleen
  • Radioactive34
    Radioactive34 Member Posts: 391 Member
    #15
    pjdreams said:

    Hello
    I am clear cell 1C diagnosed first in Aug 2009. Had recurrence last fall, with 2nd look surgery followed by major debulking surgery in March 2011. they were unable to remove all the tumors, some are still embedded in bowels and colon. Poor prognosis. I'm now on doxil every month.

    Even though I was stage1C, the gyn/onc says it's the clear cell part that is very aggressive and deadly.

    Did you get the it is only
    Did you get the it is only stage 1 but you are going to die anyway feel, too? Is that not so frustrating and confusing?

    I got diagnosed at stage 1A, but man were the doctors grim and prognosis not good. I am used to people having that type of reaction with like stage 4 or 5...but 1?? I keep hearing but your cancer is different.
  • anicca
    anicca Member Posts: 334 Member
    #16
    Cafewoman53 said:

    How funny
    I asked my Dr too whether mixed was better or worse and she was pretty vauge also. Either they don't know or they don't want to give us bad news that may or may not apply in our case.
    Colleen

    I think the data is really
    I think the data is really still too sparse for them to feel comfortable speaking in decisive tones. What I read was couched in iffy terminology and I chose to put it in the best light because I need to.
  • mom2greatkids
    mom2greatkids Member Posts: 528
    #17
    Radioactive34 said:

    Did you get the it is only
    Did you get the it is only stage 1 but you are going to die anyway feel, too? Is that not so frustrating and confusing?

    I got diagnosed at stage 1A, but man were the doctors grim and prognosis not good. I am used to people having that type of reaction with like stage 4 or 5...but 1?? I keep hearing but your cancer is different.

    I am stage 3c, but boy was
    I am stage 3c, but boy was my surgeon grim. I do have the same feeling "that I am going to die." I guess Clear Cell is the most aggressive. However, there are survivors of Clear Cell no matter what the staging. I guess we need to focus on those. I start my chemo most likely next week. I had surgery May 18. Best wishes to you.
  • ivyrose
    ivyrose Member Posts: 9
    #18
    srwruns said:

    Hi, I am clear cell 1c. I
    Hi, I am clear cell 1c. I finished standard carbo/taxol 3 months ago. So far so good. My hair is just starting to grow back. I'm not familiar with temsirolimus chemo. Where are you being treated? Is is a clinical study adding that chemo? They just started a clinical trial adding something to the carbo taxol where I was treated but I was too far into my treatment to have it added.

    clear cell
    The temsirolimus is part of a stage II trial in Northern Indiana. It is considered part of a targeted treatment with less side affects..(I hope).
  • sakura121
    sakura121 Member Posts: 2
    #19
    tjpt16 said:

    Clear Cell too...question about Essiac Tea
    I was diagnosed with stage 4 clear cell in Nov. 2009. I'm doing well. My goal is to live until 2050 at least. Nobody has ever told me my stage and I never asked. I just saw it inadvertently on a medical report. I felt that I was going to survive and so knowing the stage was irrelevant. Maybe I was just fooling myself. I feel that sometimes when people hear what stage a cancer patient is in they put that person in a box and determine their survivability status based on that. Everyone is different.

    I first received treatment at MD Anderson in Houston for nine months....carbo/taxol, then debulking surgery (took all my girlie parts), then radiation in summmer 2010. I still had a tiny bit on a para-aortic lymph node. I returned to work in Japan in August 2011 and have continued treatment there; immuntherapy 3X a week, first chemo in Japan was CPT11 and nedaplatin for three rounds - weekly for three weeks and one week off each round, then every two weeks beginning in January I had a 24 hour infusion of CPT11 and took an etoposide pill everyday. Now I'm taking TS1, a pill that's a derivative of 5FU. He plans to continue with CPT11 after a bit. My tumors have slowly grown since I returned to Japan. I'm wondering why my doctor wants to stick with CPT11. Clear cell is more prevalent in Japan and lots of research on it is being done here. My doctor at MD Anderson felt very confident that I would have access to excellent treatment in Japan.

    This weekend I'm heading to the Cancer Treatment Center of America in Tulsa and will have my first appt. on Monday. I'm very interested in trying new chemotherapy and so was very glad to hear about Torisel. There's another one given to kidney clear cell patients that is being tried for ovarian cancer. It's called Sunitinib. I know that CTCA has had mixed reviews in discussions here, but I am interested in their holistic approach to treatment.

    Has anyone been drinking Rene's Tea aka Essiac Tea? How is it? Any effects good or bad?

    Take care, everyone.
    Teresa

    tjpt16
    I will start 4th chemo next Thursday, so far so good.

    you are survivor for 1 1/2 years, how do you manage your diet?
  • Kngcobra
    Kngcobra Member Posts: 1
    #20
    Clear cell husband

    Hello

    My wife will undergo surgery this thurs. For clear cell. I know this site is for patients. I just needed someone to talk to,im really scared as I know my wife is too. We have been married 37 yrs. An I feel like both ours lives have ended. Sorry for venting to perfect strangers. It all seems very sudden. Thanks for listening

     

  • NoTimeForCancer
    NoTimeForCancer Member Posts: 3,488 Member
    #21
    Kngcobra said:

    Clear cell husband

    Hello

    My wife will undergo surgery this thurs. For clear cell. I know this site is for patients. I just needed someone to talk to,im really scared as I know my wife is too. We have been married 37 yrs. An I feel like both ours lives have ended. Sorry for venting to perfect strangers. It all seems very sudden. Thanks for listening

     

    kngcobra - spouses, friend,

    kngcobra - spouses, friend, family are all welcome here.  No doubt she will be in many people's prayers now that we know there is another warrior among us. 

    I can't imagine HOW my family felt when I told them I had cancer.  No doubt they were as scared of what would happen and didn't want to see me go through everything I would.

    The ladies here are a generous with this group.  If you or your wife have questions, I am sure they would help.

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