Talk Cancer

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Hey guys (and gals).  Your knowledge base when I was diagnosed with PCa at the age of 37 in late June 2005 was invaluable.  I come to you now with another request…. We found out Friday (11/18) that my Mother (age 66) has "Sebaceous Carcinoma" around her left eye.  I’ve done [...]

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – 1. What are the other treatment options? Right now, the doctor continues to give me Tamoxifen and put me on amg-162 trial for my bone. There is a drug called Herceptin which specifically targets HER2+. Unfortunately I can’t tell [...]

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Hi, My (47 year old) wife underwent lumpectomy for 1.5cm ductal invasive grade 2 tumor.  While doing surgery they removed a nearby suspicious cyst which proved to be a small ductal in situ.  All margins were found to be clear and both sentinal nodes and axillary dissection lymph nodes also proved [...]

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I typed "Coley’s toxins" into PubMed and found 17 articles. Of these, only two appeared to be anything resembling actual clinical trials (and they dated back to 1962–unfortunately, no abstracts were available to help me decide if they [...]

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – The test used to diagnose bone mets is bone scan since that was clear I would tend not to worry since that was fine. The MRI was ordered to diagnosis your back pain and the mri would show [...]

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In the 1950’s would this type of study be considered to reach a valid conclusion?
It would possibly have some local impact, but papers like this in an obscure European journal would probably not be taken too seriously by doctors in the UK and America, if it reached [...]

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Steph, You have caught me off guard here. I am not sure what to make of this. Why are you calling me a sicko troll? How does my posting an essay on here offend you or anyone else? I never meant to do anything wrong in here, so if you would [...]

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You guys are have so much sanity and healthy going on up there … Ken Hayes is in political refugee status protected by the Canadian Government for being politically persecuted by Bush for medical marijuana. Over a 1000 plants is a federal death penality … same as assassinating a world leader [...]

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Hi there ,I live in Calgary Alberta Canada. Today i went for the exam with the camera and the doctor said i had a lot of growth so he is sending me to a specialist in 4 days,worst news of my life. He really [...]

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Ok so remember how I said life was good? Well… take that back. A little history.. thursday afternoon my mom was rushed to the hospital with severe abdominal pains, friday they found a mass and friday night she went into surgery, they removed an ovary, a tube, a mass, and 200cc [...]