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Journals
Is anyone familiar with Immunotherapy rather than Chemo??
- By hope4seka · Posted yesterday at 9:13 pm
- 2 replies
- Someone suggested (not a doctor) innovating treatment -Immunotherapy - for my daughter with ovarian cancer that is spreading to other parts of her body. She is in constant excruciating pain and very tired ...
Help!! CA 125 numbers and lymphodima??
- By nickelle33 · Posted yesterday at 3:03 pm
- 0 replies
- Can Lymphodima cause CA 125 numbers to increase? My mom's leg has swollen over the last two month. She has Ovarian for the third time and is on Chemo monthly for good. She just had a CA 125 done in June ...
The Little Things...
- By goldi111 · Posted July 2, 2009
- 8 replies
- Today I went in to my doc for a mammogram and pre-op kidney and liver blood work. I was feeling very teary today, don't know why..like anything could make me burst into tears. (I was feeling a little ...
Any Suggestions
- By vicki40 · Posted July 2, 2009
- 5 replies
- I've posted before letting everyone know about my cancer, Ovarian, 7 years, over 80 chemos, running out of options, NOW i have bowel cancer. Doc picked up a mass 4.5cm inside the bowel area. Thinks it ...
Update on surgery date
- By goldi111 · Posted June 30, 2009
- 16 replies
- Saw the gyn/onc surgeon today in the cities and he has scheduled me for a hysterectomy/exploratory surgery on Monday, July 6th. Hubby & I will travel down Sunday the 5th and check into the guest apartments ...
It's All About the Poop
- By CarolAnn1 · Posted June 30, 2009
- 14 replies
- I never imagined it would come to this, but my mother and I are sharing the cancer experience together. We've sat side by side in our recliners getting our chemo, carpooled to the clinic, and compared ...
Pain, chemo, vomit and parking tickets
- By Mish_E · Posted June 30, 2009
- 6 replies
- I am going to have a vent ... After spending the last 2 weeks dragging myself around trying to get to work, throwing up, looking like a beached whale, feeling a lot of pain and very constipated I found ...
Apprehension and Anxiety
- By goldi111 · Posted June 28, 2009
- 11 replies
- Part of me wishes it was time for my appointment with the surgeon on Tuesday. The other part of me wishes the days could just go on & on because I need more time to adjust to this new idea of being "sick ...
Scared of what comes next
- By darsgirl · Posted June 26, 2009
- 1 reply
- my mother was diagn. in 06 with stage 4 primary peritoneal cancer (a sister cancer to ovarian cancer) that is not contained. she had surg. 2 rounds of chemo currently started 3rd round, now bowel obstruction ...
“You have cancer but cancer doesn't have you"
- By hope4seka · Posted June 25, 2009
- 6 replies
- I would like to say thank you to everyone who replied to my last post. Sorry I am not sanding individual thanks to all, but I so appreciate all the good wishes and the advice..I know I am a little overwhelmed ...
Doxil
- By Quilter · Posted June 25, 2009
- 1 reply
- I am on doxil and carboplatinum for the past 5 treatments and have 3 more to go and then he plans to keep me on just Doxil for 6 months. At the beginning the burning of hands, feet and pubic region(crotch ...
Doxil- round 3
- By okeedoakee · Posted June 25, 2009
- 5 replies
- Not sure whether round 4 of Doxil will be happening. My side effects are not making my doctor happy and he may change the drug. I have had ongoing rashes and hand and foot syndrome. One week the rash ...
Bone marrow lesion
- By patsybee · Posted June 24, 2009
- 0 replies
- Hi everybody, I just received a call from my doctor's office and they said that an MRI showed a lesion in my bone marrow on my thigh. I have stage 3C OVCA and this lesion first showed up on a bone scan ...
Doxil ... Any advice how to get through this ???
- By hope4seka · Posted June 24, 2009
- 5 replies
- Doxil ... has been very , very tough on my baby girl, my best friend . What should we expect regarding ...Doxil ...
Update
- By tiff46714 · Posted June 23, 2009
- 1 reply
- I got my ultrasound results yesterday and it turns out that the lining of my uterus is almost twice as thick as it should be. So I am going for an Endometrial Biopsy on July 16th ...
Problem with kidneys
- By yolie · Posted June 23, 2009
- 1 reply
- I have had ovarian cancer for 2 years now. It was first found because of my utera had pressure on it causing my kidney to be compromised. I now need to have a Nephrostomy tube placed in my left kidney ...
My daughter was diagnosed with stage III-C, rare fallopian tube cancer.
- By hope4seka · Posted June 23, 2009
- 7 replies
- November 5, 2008 was the day our life’s changed forever. I know, not original, but it really did. My 34 year old daughter, mother of two little ones (6 year old boy and 4 year old girl ) went into the ...
This is an update on my cancer.
- By MoYeah · Posted June 22, 2009
- 26 replies
- This is an update on my cancer. The news is not good, so feel free to by pass. I received the results on my latest MRI and CT few weeks ago. Not good! I now have new and larger tumors in both my brain ...
two good weeks !
- By HOPE4MYFRIEND · Posted June 22, 2009
- 0 replies
- Ok So Judy began her chemo this month, three sessions the first one was 8 hours long, and the 1.5 ride home, the second day was 5 hours long. Third was 6 hours. Day 4-5 were good, but days 6-7 were not ...
Take Action: Johanna's Law Introduced in the House
- By CaraPolicy · Posted June 22, 2009
- 0 replies
- http://capwiz.com/ovarian/issues/alert/? alertid=13601761 ...
