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Why - As a member you can use Inspire to let friends and family know how you're doing, contact others who share your health concerns, receive personalized updates and information about participating in surveys and clinical trials, and more.

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Living With Advanced Lung Cancer

ESKCSG
  • By ESKCSG · New reply yesterday at 5:02 pm
  • Journal · 7 replies

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levi
  • By levi · New reply November 18, 2009
  • Journal · 15 replies
  • wife ask to put somothing on it ...

Facing Pancreatic Cancer

ESKCSG
  • By ESKCSG · Posted November 16, 2009
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Prominent oncologist and fearless pancreatic cancer patient offer inspiration in recognition of pancreatic cancer awareness month. Until the recent spike of high-profile pancreatic cancer cases among ...

TheraSphere Treatment

clkempf
  • By clkempf · Posted November 9, 2009
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Going to Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for TheraSphere treatment to TRY to shrink my 6.7cm tumor in my liver....Has anyone else had this treatment and what were ar are your results??? This is the first major ...

Cancer has returned

bizzyfingers2009
  • By bizzyfingers2009 · New reply November 7, 2009
  • Journal · 31 replies
  • The fight is not over yet...Started back on chemotherapy 10/05. Carboplatin and Taxol. The road is long, and bumpy but I will make the trip ...

Inspire members featured

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply November 4, 2009
  • Journal · 29 replies
  • Today Massachusetts General Hospital's Proto Magazine published a wonderful profile of nine Inspire members. Each of these stories underscores what we all know to be true -- that Inspire is a special ...

Non small cell lung cancer 3B.

dmcarretta
  • By dmcarretta · New reply October 26, 2009
  • Journal · 7 replies
  • i was diagnoised with non small cell lung cancer stage 3b over a 12 day stay in the hospital this July. i was assigned a wonderful oncologist and i'm going to be starting my 4th round of chemo treatment ...

Guestbooks are now live!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply August 15, 2009
  • Journal · 6 replies
  • Hello everyone, Last week we mentioned that we'd be adding guestbooks to Inspire in the near future, and they are now live! We're very excited about this feature and hope you enjoy it. To check out your ...

Scheduled maintenance this evening

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply August 12, 2009
  • Journal · 13 replies
  • All, Inspire will be performing database updates this evening starting at 8:00 Eastern. We expect the updates to take no more than 2 hours and the site will be unavailable at this time. We thank you for ...

protein powders during chemotherapy

duke2813
  • By duke2813 · Posted July 23, 2009
  • Discussion in Nutrition and exercise · 0 replies
  • Researching protein supplements to be used during chemo for colon cancer. Have heard that some brands of supplements have harmful long term effects.. Have heard WHEY protein makes the cancer cells vulnerable ...

Patient-Caregiver Event

HeidiT
  • By HeidiT · Posted July 12, 2009
  • Discussion in Family and caregivers · 0 replies
  • The Geriatric Oncology Consortium & Grandparents Against Cancer are hosting an educational session and luncheon for patients & caregivers. Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009 Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Location ...

Hello

Kim_R
  • By Kim_R · New reply July 12, 2009
  • Discussion in Family and caregivers · 1 reply
  • Hello my name is kim and my husband has been fighting 4th stage throat cancer for 2 yrs.please read my journal(dave and kim the beginning till now,2 yrs later still fighting)and reply back if you like ...

Share your story via video!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply June 23, 2009
  • Journal · 28 replies
  • Sometimes the most powerful message each of us can share is our personal story -- our own experience. With upcoming healthcare legislation pending, one way we can be advocates is to share these stories ...

Follow Inspire on Twitter and Facebook!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply June 12, 2009
  • Journal · 32 replies
  • We're happy to announce that you can now stay in touch with what's happening at Inspire by following us on both Twitter and Facebook. While Inspire communities are still the best places to connect with ...

Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply June 9, 2009
  • Journal · 35 replies
  • Hello everyone, We're writing to let you know about a great new feature we'll be adding to Inspire in the very near future: guestbooks. This is a feature that many of you have requested, and we're very ...

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