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Which is the most bizarre comment you have heard?
- By metwo · Posted May 31, 2009
- In Survivor stories · 6 recommendations
- I appreciate the care shown by people who have asked about my health as a reflection of their interest in my well being. At the same time, people do say the weirdest things and last week I, who is never ...
almost 9 years
- By spunky66 · Posted April 22, 2009
- In Survivor stories · 5 recommendations
- It is hard to fathom...I was diagnosed October 2000 and am 6 months shy of being clear of ovarian cancer for almost 9 years....after being diagnosed with stage 3c...and being brca1+...and having a huge ...
Ovarian cancer not just one disease, study finds
- By donkey799 · Posted December 2, 2008
- In Clinical trials · 4 recommendations
- Ovarian cancer not just one disease, study finds Treatment for often-fatal illness may change as a result The Vancouver Sun Tue 02 Dec 2008 Page: A5 Section: Westcoast News By: Pamela Fayerman Ovarian ...
Test Detects Ovarian Cancer With 99 Percent Accuracy
- By gpawelski · Posted June 9, 2008
- In Newly diagnosed · 4 recommendations
- Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a blood test with enough sensitivity and specificity to detect early stage ovarian cancer with 99 percent accuracy. Results of this new study are ...
FDA-Approved Drug Dasatinib (Sprycel) Significantly Inhibits OVCA Growth
- By libbyshope · Posted November 11, 2009
- In Research · 3 recommendations
- The drug dasatinib (Sprycel®), approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in patients with specific types of leukemia, significantly inhibited the growth and invasiveness of ovarian cancer ...
The Cobwebs In My Brain Are Getting Cleared Out
- By ThePhoenix · Posted November 20, 2009
- In What, me worry? · 1 recommendation
- Well, I've always *thought* I might go back to school. I would get so far in the process then drop it, figuring I was too old. Well, I got off my arse and am now enrolled at a technicall institute. I ...
New Guidelines for Mammorgrams
- By curiouscat · Posted November 17, 2009
- In Research · 1 recommendation
- I was wondering what everyone thought about the "new" guidelines for mammograms? Now they're (whoever "they" are) saying that women don't need mammograms until they are 50 and that doing a self-breast ...
I thought Wed. 11/4 was the end of my life...
- By Dodie1 · Posted November 7, 2009
- In What, me worry? · 1 recommendation
- After having 14 chemo treatments with the same drug (Carbo), Wednesday my body decided that it wanted to have a severe allergic reaction. I was trying to be brave and tough and not say anything about ...
Things I am grateful for
- By Patricia123 · Posted November 2, 2009
- In Survivor stories · 1 recommendation
- THe kindness of strangers. A surgeon who knows his way around the territory and wields a scalpel with skill. Oncology nurses on loan from Heaven. Grandchildren who make me laugh and hug me in that way ...
CT Reads
- By melf · Posted October 28, 2009
- In Recurrence · 1 recommendation
- I went in for a CT not too long ago because Im just not feeling "right". Anyway, the first thing that bugged me, well ticked me off, is that within the read I was called "persistently obese" and the doc ...
Problems with excess hair?
- By Amethystmd2559 · Posted October 27, 2009
- In Side effects of treatment · 1 recommendation
- Since I am through with my chemo, my hair is trying to grow back, and that is all good. Even my eyelashes, are coming back with more than before and lots thicker. But so are my eyebrows and some facial ...
Message of Hope, Kind of Long, Sorry
- By Mullens · Posted July 24, 2009
- In Recurrence · 1 recommendation
- This year, I remain in a war fighting a relentless disease. In January, 9 months after surgery and 5 months following the initial round of chemotherapy, I was told that the disease had returned. In February ...
How much variation is expected in CA 125 after chemo ends?
- By Onthemend · Posted June 19, 2009
- In Newly diagnosed · 1 recommendation
- My CA 125 was 8985 (ish) after debulking and came down to 14 during chemo. I am almost 3 months since ending chemo. My ca 125 is now 19. Is this indicitive of a return of the disease? My doctor presented ...
