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First Chemo Day
- By Coloradomike · New reply 8:27 am
- Journal · 37 replies
- Well, this is my first Chemo induction day. I get three cycles of three. One day a week. The first of every cycle is a long day and the remaining two of each cycle will only last about an hour. I got ...
Just summing up some things...for my own benefit I suppose
- By LynnLuc · New reply yesterday at 2:23 pm
- Journal · 12 replies
- I was thinking back to when my melanoma was "just a flat brown spot" and it was called lentigo maligna...Had it removed around 92-93 but it returned in 96. Oct 10, 2000 I had it removed again. It wasn't ...
chocolate sjokolade, choklat, it is soooo good
- By PeneM · New reply yesterday at 1:57 pm
- Journal · 19 replies
- Chocolate might be bad for you, i know i got taste buds back. Friend brought be back.... Dark Orange Chocolate from Belgium. o my favorite... orange chocolate, especially dark, especially swiss or belguin ...
8th month check up still Ned!
- By formy3 · New reply yesterday at 1:45 pm
- Journal · 4 replies
- Hi cancer family its been awhile since I last posted you are always in my heart and in my prayers I went for my eighth month check up and with the endoscope they have not seen any cancer yippie! but clearly ...
COBRA ending need INSURANCE... any ideas?
- By PeneM · New reply September 3, 2010
- Discussion in Financial and insurance issues · 7 replies
- I live in Texas, and will need to get insurance in about 7 months time. So, doing due dilligence, looking to this community for some advice, suggestions, pitfalls to watch for, and questions to ask. Thanks ...
How often does cancer come back?
- By joko33 · New reply September 2, 2010
- Discussion in Living with head and neck cancer · 8 replies
- My mum is in her 50's. Is there any chance the cancer will not come back? She's at stage 2, or some call it stage 3, with metastasis in one lymph node. Thank you ...
Dry Mouth Issues
- By joko33 · New reply September 2, 2010
- Discussion in Living with head and neck cancer · 4 replies
- Hi everyone! For anyone of you who has experienced dry mouth issues, do you know if it's going to be permanent? My mum has severe dry mouth issues. She can't sleep at night because her tongue/throat feel ...
If you are a survivor in your 50's, please share your stories!!
- By joko33 · New reply September 2, 2010
- Discussion in Survivor stories · 4 replies
- If you have been diagnosed with cancer near yours 50's and are a survivor, please share your stories ...
CT scans post treatment
Head and Neck vs Other Cancers
- By Nay1976 · New reply September 1, 2010
- Discussion in Taking charge: How to be a proactive patient · 6 replies
- Is there anything special I should know about hubby's head and neck cancer? (Specifically, Squamous Malignant Carcinoma). It seems like there is a difference between this cancer and others....or am I ...
NEWS! complete, durable regression of melanoma brain metastases
- By LynnLuc · Posted September 1, 2010
- Journal · 0 replies
- Adoptive cell therapy associated with complete, durable regression of melanoma brain metastases http://www.hemonctoday.com/article.aspx? rid=68088 Adoptive cell therapy administered with activated lymphocytes ...
Went to Moffitt today
- By LynnLuc · New reply September 1, 2010
- Journal · 10 replies
- I had my appointment with Dr Jeff Weber! He is the most awesome man! So far so good! I have scans on Monday and Dr Weber also called Mayo Clinic and asked for appropriately stainned tissue samples. He ...
Depression
- By Alan_Robinson · New reply August 30, 2010
- Discussion in Living with head and neck cancer · 7 replies
- I do not know if others have this challenge but I do. I was first diganosed in tongue cancer in 1996. Since then, I have been diagnosed twice more in 2000 and 2007. Both times the surgery significantly ...
1 Month Post Docetaxel PET scan
- By nmhusky · New reply August 30, 2010
- Journal · 20 replies
- Woopee cancer Free!! My HemOnc at the Mayo said to go home and enjoy the cancer free feeling. She wants to see me back in 2 months. Feels like I am on vacation (and I'm at work!). The swelling in my feet ...
New Here - I'm a "normie"
- By Nay1976 · New reply August 29, 2010
- Discussion in Family and friends · 8 replies
- I'm healthy - hubby is not. My husband starts chemo (cisplatin plus two others) on Monday. Tomorrow the PICC is being inserted. We've been fighting since January - squamous cell carcinoma in his neck ...
headed for Tampa to go to Moffitt
- By LynnLuc · New reply August 27, 2010
- Journal · 10 replies
- I have an app't on Friday 27 Aug with Dr Jeff Weber...gonna be evaluated for a vaccine trial for NED patients...I hope THIS time I am accepted ...
A few more words about privacy
- By Brian · New reply August 27, 2010
- Journal · 76 replies
- All of us at Inspire care a great deal about your privacy and work hard to ensure the information you trust us with is kept safe. We designed Inspire so that you have complete control over how your personal ...
A juice and broth day.
- By JeanneB · New reply August 27, 2010
- Journal · 6 replies
- Made celery, garlic, cilantro, dandelion leaf and carrot juice. Tastes disgusting with the dandelion but it is a blood cleanser, so bottoms up, right?Now boiling up ox tails in the crock pot all day long ...
Los Angeles area ???
- By JeanneB · New reply August 26, 2010
- Journal · 8 replies
- Anyone know of an excellent guts doctor for gastroparesis as well as diverticulitis? Who might also know why I have two spleens and they are both swollen for over a year now ...
Hi Everybody
- By paaatriot101 · New reply August 25, 2010
- Journal · 2 replies
- Hey I hope everyone is doing great and having good days. I have not caught up with all of my writing and posting yet regarding latest developments, still pretty much wait and see. Although I have been ...
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