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Good report after surgery
- By crazeelal · New reply November 3, 2009
- 7 replies
- Hi all, I had a laparotomy, tumor debulking, hysterectomy with bso, appendectomy,omentectomy,biopsy of intraperitoneal nodules and left groin lymph dissection on the 13th of October. The good news is ...
ladies please hlep. I'm so depressed.
- By mnjk04 · New reply November 2, 2009
- 25 replies
- Hi ladies, I went for my 23rd Avastin treatment today. I've been on that and Cytoxan since Dec '08. All's been going really well. CT scan in July showed 2 small lesions still there but smaller. I was ...
I just had to share this with someone
- By kimfromaugusta · New reply November 1, 2009
- 9 replies
- ok.. so like always we were rushing around getting ready for something we were already late for.. i was in the bathroom finishing up.. (one thing you should know, i am completely bald).. i yelled out ...
A CYST ON MY OVARY....
- By sonia40 · New reply November 1, 2009
- 13 replies
- Hello everybody.... for those wonderful people who are keeping up with my posts...(LOL)...im just wondering if anyone can claryify this confusing situation....i was diagnosed with CIN1/HPV...so back in ...
Chasing Mets (metastasis)
- By gpawelski · New reply November 1, 2009
- 22 replies
- On most cancer message/discussion boards, one of the most common themes is that of "chasing mets" (metatasis). Cancer patients are chasing mets because of the wrong type of chemotherapeutic regimens for ...
How late were you diagnosed?
- By sharon1630 · New reply November 1, 2009
- 10 replies
- Has anyone gone through severe weight loss (e.g. muscle atrophy) and exhibiting ovca symptoms over a long period of time before being diagnosed? I'm beginning to believe that the later one is staged (especially ...
Clinical trial carbo/gemzar/avastin
- By godshome · Posted October 29, 2009
- 0 replies
- I had my ct on monday--Tuesday got good news --No evidence of a recurrent or metastatic intra-abdominal malignancy is noted--The chemo makes me feel so bad I was just dreading the results of the scan--My ...
Patience
- By Ovacom06 · New reply October 28, 2009
- 12 replies
- While going through my cancer battle I came to the realization that there are three types of people who battle cancer: 1. The person who throws up his or her hands and gives up. 2. The person who digs ...
Just something to brighten your day...
- By abbaschild · New reply October 28, 2009
- 10 replies
- I have to share this!....I LOVED this!!! ....just click on the link below :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYAUazLI 9k Blessings and hugs and smiles to all my sisters ...
Depression...what can we do?
- By abbaschild · New reply October 28, 2009
- 13 replies
- It starts when we are thinking too much about this disease...then waiting for our next CA-125 results to come back...and if the numbers start to climb, we then start worrying more...then the "what if's ...
One day at a time!!!
- By Buttons · New reply October 27, 2009
- 9 replies
- Hi, This is round 2 for me. 10 years ago I had a granulosa tumor removed. The tumor split while the dr. was taking it out. They washed my pelvis out 5 times and then pathology found 8 cells in the wash ...
Take The Time To Live!!!
- By abbaschild · New reply October 27, 2009
- 12 replies
- A little girl had been shopping with her mom in Target. She must have been 6 years old, this beautiful red haired, freckle faced image of innocence. It was pouring rain outside, the kind of rain that ...
The Four Words Everyone Wants to Hear
- By tyke2you · Posted October 27, 2009
- 0 replies
- I enjoyed resting and spending time with Dad this weekend. We are OLD movie buffs and watched Inherit The Wind (for the 10th time, at least) and are puzzled why Olivia DeHavelin (played Prosecutor Brady's ...
HOPE ANYONE CAN HELP ME...
- By sonia40 · New reply October 26, 2009
- 8 replies
- Hello all once again as i mentioned before i am scheduled for my app in december..(re partial nephrectomy)....i just have a few symptoms that im dealing with and thought which better place to ask than ...
Chemo and Colds
- By Amy2012 · New reply October 26, 2009
- 10 replies
- I am supposed to be going for my next chemo this week, and I am not sure if any of you have had this problem, but my daughter caught a terrible cold last night, high fever, coughing, and I just started ...
Looking for someone with a diagnosis of carcinosarcoma
- By annmilbank · New reply October 26, 2009
- 8 replies
- Is there anyone out there who has received this diagnosis other than me? I have been searching everywhere to no avail. Was diagnosed in May '07, optimally debulked at Sloan Kettering in June, and have ...
Puzzzy Cancer
- By CATSMEOW · New reply October 25, 2009
- 5 replies
- I have responded to many post on the Ovarian Cancer Alliance. To my utter disgust, they have not been posted. See for yourself, with your own post. They are not for you, but against you. Keep Positive ...
Series 1 Day 1
- By Amy2012 · New reply October 24, 2009
- 21 replies
- I woke this morning two minutes before the alarm went off. I had this dream again about the old woman sitting in her gardens with me, with a cobbled fence, and the Lake (Ontario), beyond us. I dream about ...
CA125 results after chemo #2
- By mombon · New reply October 24, 2009
- 7 replies
- First of all I wanted to thank all of you who reply to journal entries. I read them on a daily basis and they have helped me. You are all sooo knowledgeable! I returned from my doctor appointment realizing ...
I have lost my mind due to ovarian cancer!
- By bevnamy · New reply October 24, 2009
- 10 replies
- My mom has stage 4 cancer. she went in the Hospital on October 2nd 2009. She thought she had a cold, she was coughing for a few months her dr. changed one of her meds because coughing was a side effect ...
