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So sad this week
- By SouthernBelle · Posted yesterday at 9:46 pm
- 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 ...
Fewer than six chemo treatments
Test results
- By Dodie1 · Posted yesterday at 6:21 pm
- 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 ...
Ascities
The Cobwebs In My Brain Are Getting Cleared Out
- By ThePhoenix · Posted November 20, 2009
- 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 ...
PI3K Pathway: A Potential Ovarian Cancer Therapeutic Target?
- By libbyshope · Posted November 20, 2009
- 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 ...
Asians
- By juliach · Posted November 20, 2009
- 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 ...
MARCE
Trying to understand
- By NannyLoLo · Posted November 19, 2009
- In Recurrence · 5 replies
- After an elevation in my CA-125 and unusual abdominal pains a CT was done to verify a recurrence ( a mere 4 months in remission). I am a stage IIIC diagnosed in Feb 09. My history was sub-optimal debulking ...
Ultrasound Hyperthermia
- By cielo · Posted November 19, 2009
- In Survivor stories · 0 replies
- http://www.clinical trials.gov/ ct2/show/ NCT00911079 Ultrasound Hyperthermia Therapy After Implant Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients Gynecologic Cancer Anyone have any input on this trial ...
gave me hope
- By kurri · Posted November 19, 2009
- In Survivor stories · 3 replies
- Hi ladies This is a story I had to share. I was shopping yesterday for clothes and another customer was talking to the shop owner about quiting smoking. I told her I had quit twelve months ago after being ...
METFORMIN - GLUCOPHAGE
WBC rapid fall after CA-125 decline
Pleural Effusion
- By khollett · Posted November 19, 2009
- In Recurrence · 10 replies
- I was just released from the hospital yesterday after being in there for a week with a large pleural effusion. I didn't realize how quickly the fluid builds back up and now that I home, I am on oxygen ...
LOW GRADE OVARIAN CANCER
second opinion?
Need Some Advice
New chemo is kicking my butt!
- By Jennali · Posted November 18, 2009
- 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 ...
Paciltaxel : Albumin bound : Abraxane
