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Five million
- By Brian · New reply yesterday at 4:06 pm
- Journal · 205 replies
- Dear members, Yesterday, Inspire reached a milestone: five million posts written by members! Each of these posts, and the 700 million words they contain, are a simple measure of how much we all do to ...
Unexplained stomach pains from meds for ALL
- By Liams-mom · New reply May 17, 2013
- Discussion in Raising a child with cancer · 4 replies
- Hi everyone..I haven't been on here for a while and I hope everyone is doing well. I have a question for other parents who have children diagnosed with A.L.L. My 13 year old son was diagnosed in April ...
Separation Anxiety
- By klgreen · New reply May 10, 2013
- Discussion in Raising a child with cancer · 5 replies
- Hello, my son was diagnosed wit Medulloblastoma in October 2012. He celebrated his 4th birthday in November. He had surgery to remove tumor which was a success, 6 weeks of proton therapy radiation, and ...
21 year old nephew
- By Peented · New reply May 9, 2013
- Journal · 3 replies
- My 21-year old nephew had a medulloblastoma tumor removed from his brain in his senior year of high school. Had cancer and radiation for almost a year. Then a year later had another cancerous nodule removed ...
Thymus Extract
CNS relapse with ALL
- By puddinlynn · New reply May 6, 2013
- Discussion in Treatment · 3 replies
- Has anyone experienced a CNS relapse with your child with diagnosis of ALL If so, how was it treated and were you given any stats about reaching remission again and/ or survival rate. Thank you ...
A new Inspire report in collaboration with Stanford Medical School
- By Brian · New reply May 5, 2013
- Journal · 84 replies
- As many of you know, Inspire has a professional collaboration with the Stanford University School of Medicine. Inspire members have written personal stories for the Stanford Scope column. I am pleased ...
Primary Symptoms of cancer???
- By mango1990 · New reply April 27, 2013
- Discussion in Awareness and fundraising · 14 replies
- Hiiii everyone... I want to gain some knowledge from you all. The first question that comes in my mind is, what primary symptoms made you feel that your child has/may have cancer? Please share.. Prayers ...
Child with underlying acute lymphoblastic leukaemia with ascites
- By cheahbooneu · New reply April 27, 2013
- Discussion in Treatment · 3 replies
- Hi, i have a 10 years old child who is diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. He had recently completed his chemotherapy; scheduled to start his maintainance chemotherapy in May 2013. However ...
B Vitamins as antidote to neuropathy?
- By Andie4 · New reply April 25, 2013
- Discussion in Raising a child with cancer · 5 replies
- My 7 year old son is 18 months into his treatment for leukemia, and gets Vincristine IV once a month as part of that treatment. We have noticed that he definitely has some gait issues - he skips or hops ...
My Baby Michael...
- By Toran_Kids_Gone_Wild · New reply April 24, 2013
- Journal · 2 replies
- I've joined because I'm trying to research information on behalf of my 15 yr old Son Michael. In July of 2011 he had a sudden onset of painful urination accompanied by cola colored urine. He's been admitted ...
Gross Hematuria 19mos. No Diagnosis? Signs and symptoms of Bladder cancer
- By Toran_Kids_Gone_Wild · New reply April 24, 2013
- Discussion in Treatment · 1 reply
- I've joined because I'm trying to research information on behalf of my 15 yr old Son Michael. In July of 2011 he had a sudden onset of painful urination accompanied by cola colored urine. He's been admitted ...
Kids with cancer, showing it off in a Fashion Show!
- By LyrisMom · New reply April 23, 2013
- Discussion in Awareness and fundraising · 3 replies
- My six year old daughter was diagnosed with osteosarcoma (bone cancer) last year. She completed her last round of chemo this past January. She is doing great! Her hair is growing back and she is so excited ...
coping is a daily adventure
- By gerry04363 · Posted April 23, 2013
- Journal · 0 replies
- Coping Skills A Personalized Introspection, Dealing with a Genetic Disorder Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Gerard FitzGerald Coping Skills Introduction: Coping skills, is something that each one of us utilize ...
Medical Masks for Children
- By MIT-mask-design-team · New reply April 22, 2013
- Discussion in Raising a child with cancer · 3 replies
- I am student at MIT working on a project to design a comfortable, effective and fun-looking medical mask for children. We are looking for volunteers to share your experience with masks and help us understand ...
Please help me out and pray for us..
- By mango1990 · New reply April 18, 2013
- Journal · 11 replies
- I have twin brothers, 5years old. One of them has nephrotic syndrome. The other one was doing well. But recently, he had some infection few weeks back and and last week he was caught by flu, had high ...
The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Deanna Attai, MD
- By John2 · New reply April 16, 2013
- Journal · 16 replies
- Dear members, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people who are making contributions to helping patients and caregivers worldwide. The people in this ...
Chemo
Pls share you afterward radiation experience
- By Anwer · New reply April 12, 2013
- Discussion in Emotional support for my child · 5 replies
- My son (six yrs) suffer ring from Medulloblastoma grade IV and going to start 30 sessions of radiation with chemo. I have read lot of material telling about after ward effects of radiation. These are ...
Epithelioid
- By Julieriley · New reply April 5, 2013
- Discussion in Teens · 7 replies
- My niece just found out she has cancer. 17 and it's a huge tumor. Just wanting to find out anyone with this a any advise u can give our girl ...
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