Japan Study Shows Reason for Hope!

dianetavegia
dianetavegia Member Posts: 1,942 Member
edited March 2014 in Colorectal Cancer #1
Colon Cancer Mets Surgery Great Results


Long-term survival can be expected after R0 resection of pulmonary metastases

I saw these articles earlier and thought I'd share this encouraging news. I especailly like this portion.
The longer a person with metastatic cancer lives, the more likely that he or she will be around to benefit from new medical advances designed to turn cancer into a manageable, chronic disease, not something that greatly shortens life. Along with better and longer life, the surgery study also offers something that all cancer survivors need and deserve to have: Hope for the future.

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  • geotina
    geotina Member Posts: 2,111 Member
    #2
    Diane
    Thanks for the info. How do you come up with this stuff? The only thing I ever find is stuff that offering hope to the hopeless with promises of a cure and we all know that just aint' so, if there was a cure, everyone would be doing it. Tina
  • sallyjoy
    sallyjoy Member Posts: 102
    #3
    Thanks for the hopeful info
    Thanks Diane for this info and for your reply to my 3rd time... post. Now i am again wondering why the oncs say his lesions are inoperable (seems the number was the deciding factor- 10+) and chemo seems to be the only option. He does have multiple nodules in both lungs but the are almost all measured in millimeters with maybe 2 or so that are a cm in size? cant they take out some of them? and what about rfa or what is this cyber knife i read in a post somewhere? also another question... hubby is probably going to balk at doing chemo much longer cuz he cant stand the ill feeling... but is it possible to do erbitux by itself without the camptosar? anyone do this?
  • AnneCan
    AnneCan Member Posts: 3,673 Member
    #4
    Diane,
    Thanks for sharing
    Diane,

    Thanks for sharing these very positive articles!
  • Fight for my love
    Fight for my love Member Posts: 1,522 Member
    #5
    Thanks a lot,Diane.You
    Thanks a lot,Diane.You always provide great information to our community.Thank you.

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