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Recurrence
Discuss issues related to recurrence.
When you get the news you don't want to hear...
- By shoppingkharma · New reply November 7, 2009
- 39 replies
- This is actually excerpt from my blog which I wrote the day before yesterday but it is what I just went through and I hope and pray many more of you will never get the news that I got just the day before ...
Jealous and angry
- By bohan54 · New reply November 7, 2009
- 46 replies
- Not attractive to admit to these emotions and right up front I apologize. I am new to this community, introduced by a friend from MedHelp. Hope she doesn't disown me for this post! Seems everybody here ...
SEX
- By loveoneanother · New reply November 7, 2009
- 39 replies
- Hey ladies i just wantto bring this subject to the table for a little feed back. have any of you given up on sex . I've been married for 25 years and to a loving careing man. He still finds for desireable ...
Tamoxifen
- By jolock2004 · New reply November 5, 2009
- 20 replies
- I was diagonsed with my 3rd recurrence in Sept of this year. I was put on Navelbine for 9 cycles and then start Tamoxifen to try and keep me in remission longer(I was only off chemo 9 weeks when I filled ...
CT scan results and weekly taxol
- By mnjk04 · Posted November 5, 2009
- 0 replies
- Well I saw the Dr. today. CA was 40 and CT scan showed the same 3 lesions. One was slightly smaller and the other 2 were slightly bigger, not by much. So he is figuring that the Avastin and Cytoxan have ...
Elevated CA125 with Doxil
- By racewife · New reply November 4, 2009
- 22 replies
- I have recurrent stage IV and have had 2 Doxil treatments. The first one dropped my CA125 to 28 but after the second treatment it went to 38.2. I get number 3 tomorrow. Is this normal? I know it is not ...
confused
- By joah2 · Posted November 4, 2009
- 0 replies
- A month ago I went to my gyn. because of some complains I recoggnized from the first diagnose. There was indeed a new OVCA. I had surgery and the urologist involved because of a increased urether asked ...
"hypermetabolism with an SUV of 32.4"
- By ccdatty2 · New reply November 3, 2009
- 9 replies
- Just had a PET Scan this am in followup to my CA125 tripling this past 3-4 months. Does anyone know what the above means. It is evidently a nodule between my vagina, bladder and sigmoid colon in my lower ...
CT Reads
- By melf · New reply November 2, 2009
- 20 replies
- 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 ...
My dr said It will eventually get you.
- By Nancy2627 · New reply November 2, 2009
- 45 replies
- My dr said a scarey thing to me. He said that it was going to eventually get me but he would rather later than sooner. And that was his job. He never talked so hopelessly before. Now I know that in the ...
tomoxifen
- By melaniesgrandma · New reply November 2, 2009
- 2 replies
- I have recurrant ovarian cancer. MyCA125 numbers are rising. Has anyone taken Tomoxifen to help slow down the numbers and if so what were your side effects? I have been on this journey since 11/07, Surgerys ...
doctor visit, CTscan, new chemo
- By Jennali · New reply October 31, 2009
- 18 replies
- Help, I'm on a merry-go-round and can't get off! Had my 10th... and final, as it turned out...treatment of Taxol today. Then saw my gyn/onc. (would have made more sense to see him first and skip the chemo ...
A thank you from Maria
- By mnjk04 · New reply October 29, 2009
- 1 reply
- I just want to thank all you lovely ladies for your helpful and encourqaging responses. Yes, I've been on Zoloft for abour 3 years now. I can't imagine what a basket case I would be if I wasn't taking ...
In remission only 4 mos
- By karen7149 · New reply October 28, 2009
- 8 replies
- Ok, I was so excited as was my oncologist that I had such a good result from the 1st chemo(taxol and carboplatin). She was going to do intraperitoneal and for 8 sessions but didn't do those because I ...
Length of remission
- By llj · New reply October 28, 2009
- 36 replies
- Question: When one has a recurrence, does the second and third and so forth recurrence happen at shorter intervals, or are there cases where your first recurrence happens after, say, 8 months, but your ...
Goodbye Curly Hair...
- By koh847 · New reply October 28, 2009
- 17 replies
- Hi Everyone....Finally getting a pic on here....looks nothing like the "old" me. I used to have blondish/brown shoulder length hair that had a bit of wave in it here and there. After chemo...came in sooo ...
Treatment in Atlanta Georgia
- By Mullens · New reply October 28, 2009
- 8 replies
- I have recurrent disease and I have decided to move to Atlanta, Georgia from New Jersey. I am currently being treated at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, an NCI designated facility. I have been considering ...
more than one surgery?
- By yolie · New reply October 27, 2009
- 8 replies
- I have stage IIIV OC, found it in 2007, and treated it with Taxol & Carbo, which worked well. I was debulked and in remission for about 3 months before it reappeared, at which time I started a trial of ...
Update to "Not the best news..."
- By koh847 · New reply October 26, 2009
- 11 replies
- Hi Everyone...Just met with Duke doc for 2nd opinion. She will base her decision on what the CT shows tomorrow morning. Docs here in Raleigh said pretty much the same thing. Docs here said if it was localized ...
PET or CT?
- By Milashka · New reply October 26, 2009
- 10 replies
- After 4 years in remission (measured from the day of surgery, per my gyn/onc) my CA 125 is slowly rising. My normal range was 9-13, since January it has gone 11-14-16-26 at three months intervals. Since ...
