Hi fellow cancer buddies I am trying to get a better sense of the links between highly Traumatic Events in our lives and the development of cancer . I was a firestorm fighter ( CFA Volunteer ) inside the black saturday firestorm that raced up the mountain and wiped out kinglake west and the other towns on mount disappointment . I didn't get any physical damage even though it got to 200 C where we where as the plastic melted on the fire truck I was crewing . I did however get and am still suffering from PTSD and then 12 months after the fires I was diagnosed with Colon cancer . The first thing the nurse asked me when I sat down for the first of many chemo cocktails was , did you have anything unusual happen in the last year ? Well it was like this . I told her of the fires and the after events and she was not surprised . Do any of you also have highly Traumatic Events with in a few years of your cancers being detected ? I understand that there maybe many ways that cancer is caused , I would like to hear from others who have had intense emotional shock before the shock of cancer . ... View more

Hi, fellow cancer researchers with cancer or live with someone with cancer!!! I consider myself very lucky so far as the only real side effect i have is Peripheral Neuropathy and I know others have much worse . I'm hoping to find other people who have tried treatments for Peripheral Neuropathy. I was on 2 chemo drugs for 12 treatments over 24 weeks after they removed a 20 mm cancer tumour and 1/3 of my colon and 15 lymph nodes 5 of which had cancer . they stopped the oxaliplatin after the tenth treatment , i had a severe reaction to one of the drugs a week after the 8th treatment . Neither the hospital or doctors had any suggestions for s treatment just wait and see if it goes away over time , 6 weeks, 6 months , 2 years if it hasn't fixed it self after 2 years it may not go away at all . It has been 3months and I still have the sandpaper like feelings in my finger tips and the soles of my feet . I have been trying a few alternative treatments l including aggressive mussel massages , dry needling ( acupuncture) but they have little to no long term effect , the massages do help in the short term as they distract me from the constant Neuropathy sensations . i was on Fluorouracil and Oxaliplatin , neither mentioned on the US website "medicinenet" as a cause of Peripheral Neuropathy. I have just had my first Colonoscopy since the end of the treatment and the surgeon removed a small polyp and now i have a long 2weeks wait for the results . ref: http://www.medicinenet.com/peripheral_neuropathy/article.htm "Cancer therapy drugs such as vincristine (Oncovin, Vincasar), and other medications [for example antibiotics such as metronidazole (Flagyl), and isoniazid (Nydrazid, Laniazid)] Has anyone tried any of the treatments on this website or anything else for peripheral neuropathy caused by cancer drugs ? ... View more