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Treatment options
Discuss current and emerging treatment options including chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, and more.
Proton Therapy and Treatment for Cancer
- By Umbrellaman · Posted November 13, 2009
- 0 replies
- OVERVIEW Radiation therapy, given in higher doses, can control many cancers. However, due to this method's inability to conform to a specific irradiation pattern, tissues that surround cancerous cells ...
Duke or Emory
- By DebRhena · Posted September 23, 2009
- 0 replies
- Recently my Ongology GYN Surgeon left, which leaves no Ongology surgeon within my area. Which also hadicaps the ongologist. So I am being referred to Duke. Anyone out there going to Duke? I am also close ...
alternatives to tamoxifen for est + breast cancer
- By Hawkwoman · New reply July 27, 2009
- 15 replies
- I am a premenopausal woman interested in finding alternative treatment options for estrogen receptor positve breast cancer. Is there another option that might work to help increase my odds for survival ...
clinical trials(stage iv colon cancer)......are they good?
- By sandee777 · New reply June 22, 2009
- 3 replies
- did anyone with stage iv colon cancer, tried a clinical trial? do u get any beneifts from it? i have done my research and there are good and bad benefits ...
dad with multiple metd to the brain
- By trickajane · New reply May 13, 2009
- 4 replies
- dad has secondary multiple brain mets and now diabetes from steroids, hadr to get his sugar under 340 he also, has no movement in left side and now trying to take his right side now immobile, had whole ...
secondary brain mets from colon cancer
- By trickajane · New reply April 18, 2009
- 3 replies
- my dad has secondary brain mentaiss, recent sdcans show it is all over the brain and only thing they can do at this point is whoe brain radiation, docs say iot wont help much, anyone had this and lived ...
Osteosarcoma
- By ajay · Posted February 11, 2009
- 0 replies
- Lungs ...
Early Stage SLL/CLL
- By jrgymb · New reply December 18, 2008
- 3 replies
- I was recently diagnosed with SLL/CLL. I found out today I am at stage I. While researching treatment options, I came across this statement on this website: "Radiation therapy is the standard treatment ...
Query on Rexin-G
- By johnenri · New reply July 16, 2008
- 3 replies
- Hello to anyone out there who has an experience in the use of the drug Rexin-G in the treatment of metastatic pancreatic cancer. Just how effective is this drug? Is it a better alternative to Gemzar which ...
Prostate cancer-- surgery or radiation?
- By Alison2 · New reply July 9, 2008
- 7 replies
- A good friend of my family just got diagnosed with prostate cancer. His doctor thinks that they caught it early. His first doctor said that he should definitely have surgery with a new technique using ...
Can an 80 year old survive the treatments for in operable lung CA
- By fourdad · New reply June 24, 2008
- 8 replies
- My Dad is 80. He is fairly healthy. He drives, gardens, shops. He was Dx with a 7cm tumor in left lung near his spine and behind his heart. Seems like it takes forever for the doctors to decide a real ...
Mouth Cancer
- By Gulam · Posted April 14, 2008
- 0 replies
- hello....i'm glad to join your inspire team.... here i've a query regarding the mouth cancer... my brother in law is used to hans and because of which he is now suffering from mouth cancer... he underwent ...
Lung cancer (adenocarcinoma ) and Tarceva
- By fuksas · New reply April 7, 2008
- 1 reply
- i'm from Italy and my father (64 years old) has lung cancer (adenocarcinoma) since june 2007 with multiple small cerebral metastasis. He had a radioterapy cycle (all head irradiation) and 6 chemotherapy ...
Navelbine and Avastin
- By Eve · New reply March 4, 2008
- 13 replies
- After being put on 5 different kinds of chemo (6 series) in less than four years, I am to be put on Navelbine starting next week. Each time I have been put on chemo, I have had a serious side effect come ...
