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After operation to remove Bowel cancer on right side I'm now due to start 12 Cycles of chemo. Oxaliplatin, Calcium Folinate and Fluorouracil by pump over 46 hours at home. I'm finding this is causing me more stress than the operation. The number of possible side ...Read More
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8 months on Abemaceclib targeted daily tablet treatment for my metastatic breast cancer tumors in my pleura.( The bag around the lungs is called the pleura. Heard of pleurisy?)Anyway my breast cancer that was in remission has returned after 7 years and breast canc...Read More
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My Mom who is 83 has stage 3b colon cáncer. Seven months ago she had the tumor removed along with 5 lymph nodes. After that she had six months of chemotherapy with the pill. It's being three months since, and she has not gained nor lost any more weight. She does h...Read More
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Hi, I am curious to know if anyone started with one hospital and moved to another mid treatment. I feel things are being overlooked after informing various doctors. I just don’t know how hard it is as don’t want to affect my Chemo course as on 2nd type.thanks in ...Read More
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Radiation therapy is an important and common treatment for cancer. It uses a controlled and precise dose of radiation to kill cancer cells or damage them so they cannot grow, multiply or spread. It can also injure some healthy cells at or near the treatment area an...Read More
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I have just started treatment (my cycle 1, day 1 of treatment was on Tuesday) and I am really interested to hear how people are finding their groove? Any new morning / afternoon / evening routines, complimentary therapies that are working for you, exercise that is ...Read More
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I used Braff then yervoy then Keytruda i had huge autoimmune reactions including nearly losing my sighti am still swollen terribly and ache all over from prednisone i wondered if anyone else experienced reactions as the jury is still out on whether the effects get ...Read More
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Hi everyone,hoping to learn more about side effects, I may have an unusual situation. 59 year old Malenever had any cancer symptoms 2.5cm tumor in right lung. Keytruda for 12 weeks and tumor shrunk to 1.5 cm. Very little side effects until about the 19th week. All...Read More
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Hi all. I was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma unknown primary stage 4 spread to lymph node in my neck last year. I was treated with standard radiation and chemotherapy. In addition it was suggested that I use medical marijuana which I've been using for over ...Read More
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Hi there I’m just finishing 14 cycles of clinical trial chemo each 3 weeks apart after doing 6 cycles of initial chemo. I also have had a double mastectomy and lymph nodes taken from arm. I feel ok but was hoping my oncologist might say I was done and I would so...Read More
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