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Radiation for bone met -- what can I expect?
- By JillAline · Posted 6:46 pm
- Discussion in Treatment options · 0 replies
- On my last MRI the met to my rib showed that it might be growing a bit. It certainly hurts, but nothing too excruciating. The oncologist is recommending that we radiate the bone met to "settle it down ...
Dancing on the abyss
- By yesshecan · New reply 4:04 pm
- Journal · 33 replies
- Silent home. Cat sleeps. Dog sleeps. Cancer sleeps. PET scan came back with NED. Yet I am aware, so keenly aware that cancer can sleep and hide and edge forward when it choses. I dance on the abyss. Stare ...
Don't know what to do already
- By Dolphinlady · New reply 4:00 pm
- Journal · 8 replies
- I finished my WBR on 9/9/09. I spent that week and the next two days weaning off the steroids which were awful. I gained 20 pounds on them and was bouncing off the walls. Since them I've steadily decline ...
A math puzzle for you all!!
- By gasketman · New reply 3:27 pm
- Journal · 12 replies
- You have seven girls sitting in a circle with seven backpacks each. In each backpack you have one big cat and one momma cat with seven kittens. How many legs do you have in this brain teaser?? Good Luck ...
MTS to lever
- By uju99 · New reply 1:54 pm
- Discussion in Newly diagnosed · 1 reply
- does chemo fix that ? if it is coming from OVC ? what are symptoms ...
Ticking Clock
- By harpangel36 · New reply 1:49 pm
- Discussion in Living with cancer · 3 replies
- My triple negative breast cancer was diagnosed at a stage IIIB in January of this year. I have been told that it will likely metastisize within 2-3 years. When does that 2-3 years start? When yours became ...
It's back again.....Help telling my son
- By washinbrig · Posted 1:27 pm
- Journal · 0 replies
- Hi was dxed at 29 with stage 3 er, pr, her2neu +++ lobular breast cancer,did chemo and XRT that was 8 years ago. The following year had a hysterectomy and found cancer in ovaries. been on Herceptin from ...
update
- By curlee · New reply 1:18 pm
- Journal · 1 reply
- hi cancer babes after having had a virus and just being stuck home {which i enjoy but after a while get stir crazy}, john and i got swine flu shots in prep for a cruise. haven't seen my daughter here[sick ...
Radiation is halfway done
- By mom2acat · New reply 1:12 pm
- Journal · 2 replies
- I've had 7 low dose radiation treatments to my hip joint now; 7 more to go. My IBS started to flare up Sunday, (I have the kind with diarrhea). They have tried to avoid going through the bowel with the ...
Probably a stupid question
- By mrsmas · New reply 1:11 pm
- Discussion in Living with cancer · 12 replies
- Okay, this is probably a dumb question, but I can't be the only person who struggles with it! Somewhere there is a middle road between overreacting to every new unexplained pain that crops up and blowing ...
My Feet Hurt
- By Mannasaurus · New reply 1:09 pm
- Discussion in Living with cancer · 4 replies
- Hello all. I know I've read that this is common after chemo. My feet started hurting toward the end of the chemo treatments (taxotere/carboplatin) but now they hurt even more and its been 4 months since ...
How does Purdue make their Chicken Breast Big?
- By Natada · New reply 1:07 pm
- Discussion in Research findings · 5 replies
- I watched Food Inc. it was scary. There was a focus on how Purdue Chickens were raised, and it mentioned thatthey perfected making the chickens breast grow faster and bigger. Haven't done the research ...
How long since stage IV diagnosis?
- By chainsawz · New reply 1:04 pm
- Discussion in Taking charge: Being a proactive patient · 113 replies
- One year ago, I received an initial stage IV diagnosis. I was helped by reading the posts of other women who fought the alligators for so long. I realized I could also fight this disease! I just wanted ...
Mom's got a LOW temp? Help?
- By Daughter2Survivor · New reply 12:12 pm
- Discussion in Family and caregivers · 10 replies
- Hi there Mets Group... it's been a while since I have been in touch. We moved to SC and took Mom with us, so we've been quite busy. The first 2-1/2 wks were full of more smiles than I'd seen in a LONG ...
Stage 4 Breast Cancer with mets to liver
- By NurseJoan · New reply 11:14 am
- Journal · 12 replies
- I was diagnosed with Metastatic Breast Cancer with mets to the liver in May 2009. I had a mastectomy at the end of May, the liver mets was discovered in June, Chemo started at the end of July. I had another ...
Chemo Vacation
- By PinkMelba · New reply 9:35 am
- Discussion in Living with cancer · 3 replies
- Hello hot cancer babes: Has anyone with mets to lungs ever had a chemo vacation longer than 3-4 months? What has been your longest chemo vacation? I have not even had my first but like to hear about the ...
Hair Growing on Gemzar & Carboplatin
- By mlm · New reply 8:49 am
- Discussion in Treatment options · 20 replies
- Has anyone had their hair start growing back while on gemzar & carboplatin? My hair is growing in and I'm wondering if it is temporary or what? Literature I've read said carbo hair loss. Anyone with experience ...
Blood test to determine risk of ONJ and Zometa
- By darn · New reply yesterday at 8:39 pm
- Discussion in Treatment options · 12 replies
- Hello to ALL, I saw my dentist yesterday for my 6 month check up and raised a lot of questions regarding ONJ. It is a fear I have being on Zometa. She is the first person to tell me this info. and I wanted ...
Survivors need more humor
- By mrsmas · New reply yesterday at 3:13 pm
- Discussion in Living with cancer · 13 replies
- Having grown up in an abusive situation, I developed a dark sense of humor. At an early age I learned that you either laugh or cry and I would prefer to laugh. Acquiring cancer is no different. In a situation ...
lymph nodes
- By stuartrose · New reply yesterday at 1:39 pm
- Journal · 10 replies
- I went back last week to my onc for my CT scan and results. It seems I have lit up nodes in the groin and abdomen area. We both decided to keep it monitered, very closely, and try to get into a trial ...
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