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LOW GRADE OVARIAN CANCER
I had my baby!
- By darlingclem · New reply 1:29 am
- Discussion in Good news · 41 replies
- As some of you may remember, I'm an 11 year survivor of ovarian cancer and recently (well, 9 months ago) found out I was pregnant. My little remaining ovary pulled it off and after only 4 months of trying ...
The end is finally here.
- By tyke2you · New reply 1:17 am
- Journal · 10 replies
- It's been a long 6 weeks of radiation therapy, but the end is finally here. I rested most of today and have the room all packed up and ready to go home in the morning. We've made some wonderful friends ...
I'm convinced I have o.c. even though I am only 28.
- By nikita7star · New reply 12:50 am
- Discussion in Newly diagnosed · 15 replies
- I am not diagnosed yet, but I needed a place to turn. I am having a pelvic ultrasound this week and a complete and I am really nervous. I have been going to the doctor for months with common complaints ...
hospital stay
Wonderful
- By luvmymom18 · New reply 12:24 am
- Journal · 4 replies
- It is wonderful to find such a group to discuss everything with that truly understands what you may be going through. Thank you to everyone for your wonderful responses... it is truly appreciated ...
Ascities
Test results
- By Dodie1 · New reply yesterday at 10:51 pm
- Discussion in What, me worry? · 3 replies
- Got results Wednesday....the cancer is not fully gone. I've got to switch chemo drugs since I almost died from half of the last treatment. I've got to try Cisplatin. The new one can cause hearing loss ...
Small miracle Miss Lindsey
- By SouthernBelle · New reply yesterday at 10:23 pm
- Discussion in Good news · 12 replies
- Last year in August, my husband was on a business trip 100 miles away from home. I was just four months post-op and was struggling not to fall into depression. My husband was traveling and pulled off ...
So sad this week
- By SouthernBelle · Posted yesterday at 9:46 pm
- Discussion in What, me worry? · 0 replies
- I hate the holiday's. I can remember as a child so excited for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Now it seems that every year someone dies around the holiday. One of my friends lost her mom today to lung cancer ...
Trying to preserve fertility
- By amandajd · New reply yesterday at 9:16 pm
- Journal · 1 reply
- So its been a little more than two weeks since I was diagnosed, and since then I feel like I have been flooded with information! I found out I have stage IIC, and my doctor is going to have me doing the ...
The Cobwebs In My Brain Are Getting Cleared Out
- By ThePhoenix · New reply yesterday at 7:38 pm
- Discussion in What, me worry? · 8 replies
- 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 ...
Fewer than six chemo treatments
Are you getting the flu vaccine?
- By katelynsmamaw · New reply yesterday at 7:03 pm
- Discussion in Recurrence · 23 replies
- I am currently getting radiation treatments and will do chemo next. I'm just wondering how many of you that are not taking chemo, will be getting the vaccine? What about the swine flu vaccine ...
New chemo is kicking my butt!
- By Jennali · New reply yesterday at 6:46 pm
- Discussion in Side effects of treatment · 11 replies
- I only hope it is also kicking the cancer cells' butts! I went in for labs today, one week after my Gemzar last week. My blood counts are all down pretty drastically. I was mentally prepared for a Neulasta ...
Asians
- By juliach · New reply yesterday at 4:56 pm
- Discussion in Newly diagnosed · 5 replies
- I am Chinese. Although I have been in this country for quite sometime, our diet still is not americanized. I just wonder if there are any Asian OVCA patients out there so I can get advice on nutrition ...
Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research
- By mmtraynor · New reply yesterday at 4:26 pm
- Discussion in Awareness and fundraising events · 3 replies
- In September 2008 my husband and I attended a symposium in Seattle held by Saul Rivkin, MD, (Oncologist) Founder and Chairman of the Marsha Rivkin Center Board of Directors. Dr. Rivkin's wife died of ...
PI3K Pathway: A Potential Ovarian Cancer Therapeutic Target?
- By libbyshope · New reply yesterday at 3:14 pm
- Discussion in Clinical trials · 2 replies
- I posted an article today, entitled "PI3K Pathway: A Potential Ovarian Cancer Therapeutic Target?" The article addresses two recent medical studies (an in vitro study & a Phase I clinical study) that ...
Neuropathy in Feet
- By bdecka · New reply yesterday at 2:37 pm
- Journal · 50 replies
- Would you please let me know of any suggestions or help that you have received with regard to feet hurting at night which I assume is Neuropathy from the chemo that my sister received after ovarian cancer ...
New Guidelines for Mammorgrams
- By curiouscat · New reply yesterday at 2:10 pm
- Discussion in Research · 29 replies
- 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 ...
