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By levi · New reply 7:48 am
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looking like slow day here wx nice 30 40s ...

Dancing on the abyss

By yesshecan · New reply 12:49 am
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Silent home. Cat sleeps. Dog sleeps. Cancer sleeps. PET scan came back with NED. Yet I am aware, so keenly aware that cancer can sleep and hide and edge forward when it choses. I dance on the abyss. Stare ...

Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

By PeterPJB · New reply yesterday at 10:55 pm
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I was shocked at my elevated PSA readings over such a short period of time. in Dec 2008 my PSA was 1.5 and 5 months later 3.9 which lead to a biopsy in June 2009. Findings were a 3-5% concentration of ...

Looking for someone been there done that throat cancer, rads, chemo

By kevinsspot · Posted yesterday at 8:34 pm
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This is Paaatriot101 from the head and neck cancer group and I have opened this membership for my husband because he is going to need some help and support to get through my bout with throat cancer. Having ...

Doxil Treatment

By LynleeA · New reply yesterday at 7:21 pm
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Doxil Question ... Has anyone taken Doxil and did you take the preventative steps they are asking me to do... No hot food or drink starting the day before chemo and for six days after Soaking my hands ...

Cancer has returned

By bizzyfingers2009 · New reply yesterday at 1:48 pm
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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 ...

Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

By PeterPJB · New reply yesterday at 11:14 am
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I was shocked at my elevated PSA readings over such a short period of time. in Dec 2008 my PSA was 1.5 and 5 months later 3.9 which lead to a biopsy in June 2009. Findings were a 3-5% concentration of ...

Another good day for Bob.

By medium · New reply yesterday at 9:55 am
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Bob had another good day today. He had his second radiation treatment and his breathing is already a lot better. He has also eaten toast, icecream, and cake!!!!Yipee!!! Could you believe that something ...

Is this "normal"....mood swings

By clkempf · New reply November 6, 2009
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Not the kind we had once a month but the kind that make you cry and then angry ??? I am finding out I am biting my husbands head off daily and that is not normal for me..... just diagnoised with Stage ...

Positive thoughts working for Bob

By medium · New reply November 6, 2009
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All the positive energy and prayers are doing there job! Met with Bobs onc. and the radioligist and they have decided to do radiology on the hand and chest wall. The onc has also said that he will do ...

Chemo/Radiation on 11/4/09 - STAGE IV NSCLC

By kjseal · New reply November 5, 2009
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Long day today. 5 1/2 hrs at the cancer center. Blood work show WBC taking a beating and RBC 2.97. I'm anemic so they gave me a shot of Aranesp. The oncologist is concerned about my peripheral neuropathy ...

Bobs Day

By medium · New reply November 5, 2009
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To everyone who responded to my good friend Sandy's journal asking for prayers for Bobby . A HUGE BIG THANK YOU. Sandy is right we do feel loved. Bobby had a pet scan today and we have the dreaded meeting ...

Health-focused market research opportunity in Boston

By TeamInspire · Posted November 5, 2009
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One of Inspire's partners, Schlesinger Associates, a national marketing research company, is looking for one male or female over the age of 18 who has been diagnosed within the past 2 years with non-small ...

September 22nd 2009

By Chuckr37 · New reply November 4, 2009
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My surgery has been pushed back from 8am to 10:30am, I can handle that. I will head down and have a CAT scan on the way to surgery and before theu start hacking and cutting they will do the biopsy and ...

New website!

By LizardmyOli · New reply November 4, 2009
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I found a website called Mednotes ( I posted the link on my favorites). I was a bit impressed by a quick response they gave me overnight. It lets you enter your meds, conditions, allergies, etc...., then ...

New JAMA report Oct 13, 2009

By LAsky26 · New reply November 4, 2009
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The Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) released a new report on Oct. 13, 2009 regarding robotic vs open prostectomy. Anyone considering or facing this option is recommended to research this ...

Happy Halloween 2009? ... Stage IV NSCLC

By kjseal · New reply November 3, 2009
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It's hard to imagine a single event that can turn a person's world and inner being upside down, inside out and topsy/turvy more quickly then when one hears those cancer words - malignant and metasticized ...

Back to reality

By LizardmyOli · New reply November 1, 2009
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It was about this time last year that my brain tumor symptoms really started hitting me full on with serious symptoms such as things that made me think I was riding the crazy train!! I was losing sleep ...

Silent Screaming

By LizardmyOli · New reply October 31, 2009
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I have been scheduling and getting labwork done for my upcoming Ulnar Nerve decompression surgery and have had to deal with the reality of my insurance that I thought is very good and has good coverage ...

OK, some good news then!

By LizardmyOli · New reply October 30, 2009
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I saw my infectious disease doctor today and he said my counts and stuff he looks at are doing very well and he did not expect them to go up that fast! He said that i do not need to see him anymore unless ...

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