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Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 20, 2009
- Journal · 23 recommendations
- Hello everyone, We're writing to let you know about a great new feature we'll be adding to Inspire in the very near future: guestbooks. This is a feature that many of you have requested, and we're very ...
Follow Inspire on Twitter and Facebook!
- By TeamInspire · Posted June 10, 2009
- Journal · 12 recommendations
- We're happy to announce that you can now stay in touch with what's happening at Inspire by following us on both Twitter and Facebook. While Inspire communities are still the best places to connect with ...
Inspire members featured
- By Brian · Posted October 28, 2009
- Journal · 10 recommendations
- Today Massachusetts General Hospital's Proto Magazine published a wonderful profile of nine Inspire members. Each of these stories underscores what we all know to be true -- that Inspire is a special ...
Which is the most bizarre comment you have heard?
- By metwo · Posted May 31, 2009
- Discussion 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
- Discussion 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 ...
Learning to Cope with Cancer
- By mamafrog33 · Posted April 9, 2008
- Journal · 5 recommendations
- As a cancer patient or a caregiver, you will learn so much about a devastating disease that rarely leaves survivors. Everyone is hoping and praying for a cure to be found quickly, but more research is ...
Neurontin for pain management/neuropathy
- By gpawelski · Posted November 12, 2009
- Journal · 4 recommendations
- I've written before that anecdotally, drugs like Neurontin are used off-label. Most drugs are prescribed off-label. One must be cautious that off-label remedies are fully discussed with patients and must ...
Depression...what can we do?
- By abbaschild · Posted October 27, 2009
- Journal · 4 recommendations
- 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 ...
Patience
- By Ovacom06 · Posted October 26, 2009
- Journal · 4 recommendations
- 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 ...
Ovarian cancer not just one disease, study finds
- By donkey799 · Posted December 2, 2008
- Discussion 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
- Discussion 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
- Discussion 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 ...
My letter to Kroger
- By specialT65 · Posted September 27, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- Here's a letter I sent to Kroger. This is just a start in my letter writing. Today, September 25, 2009, I received my regular email from Kroger and when I opened it your pink heading caught my eye right ...
- A Life Chaning Story - The Wooden Bowl
- By Shelter · Posted April 9, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- The Wooden Bowl I guarantee you will remember the tale of the Wooden Bowl tomorrow, a week from now, a month from now, a year from now. A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and ...
HBOT For Radiation-induced Necrosis
- By gpawelski · Posted January 5, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- Radiation-induced necrosis is a serious reaction to radiation treatment. It may result from the death of tumor cells and associated reaction in surrounding normal brain or it may result from the necrosis ...
"Life Changes and We Change To Adjust To It"
- By Ciboney1 · Posted November 7, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- I have been missing from here for a while with not much to say; because of some issues here on the forum and because I have had some news I didn't want to hear ( as I know many of you have had the same ...
I just had to share this with someone
- By kimfromaugusta · Posted October 25, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- 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 ...
The Cobwebs In My Brain Are Getting Cleared Out
- By ThePhoenix · Posted November 20, 2009
- Discussion 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
- Discussion 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 ...
Being a survivor
- By annebert · Posted November 8, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- I have been meaning to post his here for a while. I stumbled on this poem one day and it encapsulates for me the fact that being alive RIGHT NOW is the best revenge. If you are not familiar with ee cummings ...
