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Carcinista
  • By Carcinista · New reply 6:10 pm
  • Journal · 7 replies
  • ...about Ovarian Cancer symptoms. Happy Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month! (I know we're not supposed to toot our own horns, but the more noise we make about this, the sooner the whispers will be drowned ...

NEWS! complete, durable regression of melanoma brain metastases

LynnLuc
  • By LynnLuc · Posted yesterday at 5:45 pm
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Adoptive cell therapy associated with complete, durable regression of melanoma brain metastases http://www.hemonctoday.com/article.aspx? rid=68088 Adoptive cell therapy administered with activated lymphocytes ...

Went to Moffitt today

LynnLuc
  • By LynnLuc · New reply yesterday at 12:45 pm
  • Journal · 10 replies
  • I had my appointment with Dr Jeff Weber! He is the most awesome man! So far so good! I have scans on Monday and Dr Weber also called Mayo Clinic and asked for appropriately stainned tissue samples. He ...

no radiation for me

colorfulone
  • By colorfulone · New reply August 30, 2010
  • Journal · 11 replies
  • I have decided not to get radiation. When I went in for my post surgery 6 week checkup, my doctor requested that I meet with the radiologist and just hear what he has to say. I got a gut feeling right ...

Is bleeding normal???

Ginger36
  • By Ginger36 · New reply August 29, 2010
  • Journal · 20 replies
  • I had a complete hysterectomy on June 23rd. It's been two full months. Now I am suddenly bleeding. It's nothing heavy, but it's still blood. Is this normal? I haven't been lifting or doing anything outrageous ...

Alittle bit of humor always helps....

momanderson920
  • By momanderson920 · New reply August 29, 2010
  • Journal · 34 replies
  • Had to share a funny story that just happened to me...it made me laugh, hope it can someone else. I am going on a business trip with my husband this week as sort of a post chemo celebration and I have ...

Post Breast Radiation

momthatprayz
  • By momthatprayz · New reply August 28, 2010
  • Discussion in Breast cancer · 4 replies
  • I am 3 months post entire breast radiation...and I am having soooo many issues... I need to hear from others. I have some swelling, which they say I have lymphadema... but some days the entire breast ...

headed for Tampa to go to Moffitt

LynnLuc
  • By LynnLuc · New reply August 27, 2010
  • Journal · 10 replies
  • I have an app't on Friday 27 Aug with Dr Jeff Weber...gonna be evaluated for a vaccine trial for NED patients...I hope THIS time I am accepted ...

A few more words about privacy

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply August 27, 2010
  • Journal · 76 replies
  • All of us at Inspire care a great deal about your privacy and work hard to ensure the information you trust us with is kept safe. We designed Inspire so that you have complete control over how your personal ...

A juice and broth day.

JeanneB
  • By JeanneB · New reply August 27, 2010
  • Journal · 6 replies
  • Made celery, garlic, cilantro, dandelion leaf and carrot juice. Tastes disgusting with the dandelion but it is a blood cleanser, so bottoms up, right?Now boiling up ox tails in the crock pot all day long ...

Things don't go the way you would like them too.

Nikkis
  • By Nikkis · New reply August 26, 2010
  • Journal · 11 replies
  • I went to have my 3 month PFT and then up to see my pulm. I thought I had done a very good job at blowing into that stupid machine. I was wrong about that. Once I got to the pulm's office I was told that ...

Dad has lung cancer

srice9
  • By srice9 · New reply August 26, 2010
  • Journal · 3 replies
  • My dad was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer on wednesday. He has been coughing up blood, his lung collapsed and he had fluid on the lung. His sister died of the same thing 18 years ago. I don't know ...

Good News On My Pet Scan!!!

Barb723
  • By Barb723 · New reply August 26, 2010
  • Journal · 16 replies
  • Hi Everyone! Good News!! I got my pet scan results. No cancer in the lymph nodes or anywhere in my body except for the tumor in my lung which is less intense and smaller in size. Image showed hot spot ...

Los Angeles area ???

JeanneB
  • By JeanneB · New reply August 26, 2010
  • Journal · 8 replies
  • Anyone know of an excellent guts doctor for gastroparesis as well as diverticulitis? Who might also know why I have two spleens and they are both swollen for over a year now ...

The reason Why I Share my Story

Ovacom06
  • By Ovacom06 · New reply August 25, 2010
  • Journal · 5 replies
  • As September (Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month) is only nine days away I have decided to repost “The reason Why I Share my Story”. Let me know why you share your story. I share my story because I have ...

Fed up with my HMO and their negligence

JeanneB
  • By JeanneB · New reply August 22, 2010
  • Journal · 5 replies
  • I have been too miserable to write anything, except to suggest things for others here on this site, off and on. I have so much wrong with me, seventeen ailments all at once, failing organs, enlarged lymph ...

Not sure if I should Celebate yet!

Barb723
  • By Barb723 · New reply August 22, 2010
  • Journal · 19 replies
  • Hi Everyone! I don't want to celebrate yet....but I can't help myself. I went to a surgeon on Friday to discuss maybe surgery being one of my options. When I was talking to him, he had mention my past ...

How can I make up my mind, when I don't really know what I want?

kimikiwi1987
  • By kimikiwi1987 · New reply August 22, 2010
  • Journal · 3 replies
  • I know I'm tryn to get into CalU for school. I atleast know that much, but when it comes to relationships wow. LOL I know I was just talking about being with Daryl, but it really seems like we aren't ...

Living Life between the Dashes

saphiresky
  • By saphiresky · New reply August 21, 2010
  • Journal · 8 replies
  • I once read a story about this....Living in-between your Dashes. What is a Dash? Mine is 12 - 24 - 59 the birthdate which I was born on. As I sat here watching the neighborhood kids run under my sprinkler ...

TWISTED SISTER [NAN]

niteowls52
  • By niteowls52 · New reply August 21, 2010
  • Journal · 1 reply
  • LOVE MUSIC, LIKE TO READ, USED TO WRITE,BUT CAN'T ANYMORE...[MY WRITING HAND IS JUNK...LOL]. INTERESTED IN ALMOST ANYTHING MEDICAL OR PSYCH; HAVE PLANTS , MORE BOOKS THAN BRAINS........LOL ONCE I FIGURE ...