LHRH and casodex side effects??
Please...help!!
Reliv vs. Life Force
In shock any info would be welcome
Gene activity reveals dynamic stroma microenvironment in prostate cancer
HOUSTON -- (June 9, 2009) â€" As stroma â€" the supportive framework of the prostate gland â€" react to prostate cancer, changes in the expression of genes occur that induce the formation of new structures such as blood vessels, nerves and parts of nerves, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears in the current issue of the journal Clinical Cancer Research.
Pet scan VS. Booster Shot
another colonoscopy
no surgery needed
How do you say its ok
Exenteration
Unlocking the body's defenses against cancer
Scientists have discovered a way of allowing healthy cells to take charge of cancerous cells and stop them developing into tumours in what could provide a new approach to treating early-stage cancers.
University of Manchester researchers found that a special type of the chemicals known as 'kinase inhibitors' opened up communication channels on the surface of cells that enabled healthy cells to 'talk' to the cancer cells.
No energy
Essential Thrombocythemia and Hydrea
Evasion on "Need a Shoulder? - Talk it out, cry it out, or yell it out!"
If you take refuge in God, this is one passage that for some reason stuck with me when I was going through my chemo and radiation. Even now, 5 years down the road I remember it and turn to it when I feel like life is not "fair"
Romans Chapter 5
1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Edema left foot
Joshua1 on "Long Term Effects"
Yea, you are a soldier Evasion! My sun-exposure thingy is more of a technicality than it is a side effect. Nothing happens immediately if I go in the sun, it's just recommended to not get extended sun exposure for 2.5 years after radiation. I'll tell you what though, "the soap smells".... for me, it's the ones from the hospital...I totally know what you mean! When I go back and wash my hands, I immediately feel compelled to yak all over the ground. Thankfully, I'm able to control myself but it prematurely incites a Pavlovian response. There are definitely psychological issues I've had to deal with... Mostly moments where I forgot how to feel normal and healthy. Getting to really believe that disease was not who I am...that it was just a part of my journey. Much love, Evasion...hope you are feeling good! 5 years clean is awesome!!!
A Peaceful Passing- My Friend Debbie...
Evasion on "Trauma after diagnosis"
Being a cancer survivor of 5 years, I agree with bigphez that is is something that the medical community does not focus on enough. I went through at least a year of severe depression AFTER my initial statement of remission. I did not realize it was depression until many years down the road.
To future survivors be careful and realize that you are not invincible just because you survived cancer, guard your emotions, and realize that not everyone will understand where you have been and what kind of journey you had.
But also don't forget to rejoice in it also.
and to answer your question no, I did not seek treatment until many years down the road to talk about my experience, I do wish I would have though right away, maybe I would have understood the reason I felt the way I did.
bit confused .thanks
souljacker on "Rectal cancer"
Greetings,
A very dear relative of mine has been diagnosticated with ulcerated rectal adenocarcinoma.
It caused an obstruction at her intestine. Despite that her health is very good. No pains, no weigh loss, no fever. The aggravating factors are: she is 61, obese and sedentary.
She is to go under a surgery the day after tomorrow in order to remove the tumor.
Has anyone had the same experience? Could you share?
Cancer is a very mystified disease we learned to face as a sure sentence to death. I’m trying to inform myself as much as I can to help her.
Do you have any books or articles that would be appropriate to help her understand best her disease and possible become stronger to fight it?
I’m from Brazil, it may be not easy to find then here but I’ll manage.
Researchers pinpoint a new enemy for tumor-suppressor p53
HOUSTON - Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have identified a protein that marks the tumor suppressor p53 for destruction, providing a potential new avenue for restoring p53 in cancer cells.
The new protein, called Trim24, feeds p53 to a protein-shredding complex known as the proteasome by attaching targeting molecules called ubiquitins to the tumor suppressor, the team reported this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition.
bigphez on "Stories of Initial Cancer Diagnosis"
Being the parent of a son diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma when he was 21, I can speak from my experience only. It took almost a year for the cancer to show itself, so along the way we had been to see many other doctors, but not cancer related. On our first few visits to an oncology dept in a large teaching hospital all I kept thinking was, "we are not like them, we are not here for what they are here for, we do not want to belong to this club, we don't want these people to speak to us, to know us". Finally after being diagnosed when the fear left and the hope and trust took over, that same facility became our "safety net", our place to be ourselves, to hug, laugh and cry with other cancer patients and health care professionals on all levels and I mean from the parking attendants to the doctors. It is a forever changing experience.
AmandaP on "Let more words be typed! :)"
I just had another thought that would be a great improvement to this site... the captions I write for my pictures always get cut off, sometimes after 2 sentences sometimes after 2 words... so obviously it would be nice to be able to type as much as I need but it would also be nice to be able to go back and edit the caption once it's there without having to delete the picture and reupload it... it would also be nice to be able to rearrange pictures.
I also had an issue with a message I sent to another user. I sent her a message that was probably 3-4 paragraphs long and she only got the first 8 lines. Then when I went to see what I originally wrote her so I could email it to her regular email, I noticed that there's no "folder" or anything on here to hold ur sent messages.
Just thoughts that come from using the site... I love it anyway! :)
Scripps research scientists uncover a novel mechanism controlling tumor growth in the brain
Discovery could become a new drug target for metastaticterm brain cancer
LA JOLLA, CA, June 8, 2009 â€"As survival rates among some patients with cancer continue to rise, so does the spread of these cancers to the brain â€" as much as 40 percent of all diagnosed brain cancers are considered metastatic, having spread from a primary cancer elsewhere in the body.
Small peptide found to stop lung cancer tumor growth in mice
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. â€" In new animal research done by investigators at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, scientists have discovered a treatment effective in mice at blocking the growth and shrinking the size of lung cancer tumors, one of the leading causes of cancer death in the world.
The study, recently published in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, is the first to show that treatment with a specific peptide, angiotensin-(1-7), reduces lung tumor growth by inhibiting blood vessel formation.
carcher on "orlando artist wanting to join the fight"
Last Wednesday night I participated in the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation "Promise Chair Affair". It was an eye opening experience; the paintings I provided raised $1,000 for cancer research and support. this has been one of my life long goals ever since i was a child.
to give back and help continue the fight against cancer!
The event was so positive that as an artist I have the volunteer bug big time.
I am just getting started so i can't afford to give away work forever i still want to use my art to raise awareness and money for the cure i would appreciate any suggestions or advice in continuing the good work. Of course I am still in contact with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation but I would love to add diversity to the use my talent with other organizations
so if anyone out there in the Knowcancer family has any ideas for me please, please get in contact with me !!!
-Chris
Evasion on "Just what the Doctor ordered - Conventional Medicine and Treamtments"
I will never forget once I had a home visit, where my nurse came to visit me to administer antibiotics,it was the first visit and round of the medicine. The nurse delivered the 8 vials of medicine to my home the day before, and we kept them in the refrigerator. The next day she came gave me one, and I went into an allergic reaction. The other 7 vials of unused antibiotics were thrown away, and each one of them cost was 1000, so I sat and stared at $7,000 worth of medicine in my trash can....(no cost to me my insurance was 100%)
To this day it sickens me that happened....There are/were people out there that needed that...and they couldn't afford it, and there it was in my trash...
Also on another note here, I took Green Tea supplements (drank it everyday) during the last month before I was declared in remission. I did it at the same time I did radiation. I do not know if it was a combination of the two or just one but to this day I think it played a big part.
kavi123 on "Breast Cancer Research and Treatment"
Breast Cancer Research and Treatment provides the surgeon, radiotherapist, medical oncologist, endocrinologist, epidemiologist, immunologist or cell biologist investigating problems in breast cancer a single forum for communication. The journal creates a `market place' for breast cancer topics which cuts across all the usual lines of disciplines, providing a site for presenting pertinent investigations and for discussing critical questions relevant to the entire field. It seeks to develop a new focus and new perspectives for all those concerned with breast cancer.
Oncology is undoubtedly the most rapidly growing subspecialty in the field of medicine, and breast cancer is one of the most serious problems of oncology. It is the leading cause of death of women in many countries and is truly a multidisiplinary problem without geographic restrictions. Yet this very multidisciplinary aspect accounts for breast cancer literature appearing in any of the dozens of existing medical journals. None of these journals provides a focus on the unique problems of breast cancer. There has been no convenient arena for the discussion and resolution of ongoing controversies in breast cancer treatment, or for the consideration of thoughtful speculation and comments on current work. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment aims to fill this need.
Controversial Cancer Stem Cells Offer New Direction For Treatment
British Woman Celebrates a Year of Living Cancer-Free
It’s been a year since fashion designer Joanne Scott went through a
cancer treatment that changed her life â€" and made history to boot.
Ms. Scott, 54, was the first person in the world to receive an injection
of tumor-activated natural killer (TaNK) cells as a treatment for
leukemiaterm.
Her doctors at the Royal Free Hospital in London recommended this
experimental therapy after two years of traditional treatments, including
chemotherapyterm and a bone marrow transplant, failed to keep her in remission.
Just found out my Bro in law has liver & lung cancer, See report below:
PET scan with 6 hotspots, questions
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davidavatar on "Creating your own reality as a cancer survivor"
There is a lot of interest these days in the subject of do we create our own reality and can we attract conditions into our lives by mind power and positive thinking. The book the secret and the movie what the bleep are both examples of this philosophy currently popular in the public domain.
Within the world of cancer sufferers, or other people who are experiencing themselves as victims of misfortune, the subject is perceived as a double edged sword: it brings up the feelings of blame and self recrimination; if we create our own reality does that mean that I created this horrible condition that I am experiencing?
If you are suffering from cancer, or have lost a loved one from cancer, then the suggestion that you or they could have created this condition or are any way responsible can be very threatening, insulting and insensitive.
People who write about cancer survivorship universally warn cancer survivors not to feel that they should take any responsibility for creating their illness or feel that it is in any way their fault and this is good advice. It’s good advice in the same way that it’s a good idea not to try to prescribe your own chemotherapy or perform your own radiotherapy; because you don’t have the tools or the knowledge to do it effectively and create a satisfactory outcome.
As a licensed Avatar® Master I am fortunate enough to have the appropriate tools and the knowledge to apply them so when I had the experiences of having melanoma and then brain tumour I did find it useful to address the question “how did I create or attract these experiences?†Over the period of some months and with support from other Avatar masters I have had some very revealing insights into beliefs that I was holding that were not helpful to me in terms of creating a healing experience.
The most significant belief I discovered was that I didn’t believe that I would ever feel unconditional or divine love while on this planet, in a body. I had given up trying to create or experience that level of loving commitment to, or from, another. I always knew that I had a yearning for complete connection with love but didn’t realise that it was leading me towards death.
One doesn’t need to go to this depth in self responsibility, however, to benefit from using self awareness and self examination regarding an illness. Taking responsibility isn’t about going back to the past and looking for fault, it’s about managing your beliefs in the present moment so that you can focus as much creating energy as possible on the outcome you choose to experience: being a survivor.
Even as a beginner at using the Avatar tools for self examination one can find beliefs, attitude or intentions that are not being helpful to your experience in the present moment. Using an exercise like transparent beliefs which is available to the public at Avatar introductory sessions, you can easily have an experience of discovering a hidden belief that could be creating a negative experience in your life, and then change it.
Finding such beliefs is really nothing about blame and fault at all, it’s actually a great relief to realise that you have the power to change your beliefs and that this can have a positive influence on what you experience.
Harry Palmer, author of the Avatar materials says,
“Situations are the result of multiple causes. Think of a lake that is fed by multiple streams of water. It is true that some causes have the lightening quality of fate, but some of the causes are manageable. And managing just one cause can alter an entire situation. If you focus on the "fated" causes, there is little that you can do other than continue to suffer and make plausible excuses. However, if you focus on finding the manageable causes and controlling them, you can change the situation.
What you believe is the most powerful contributing cause to any personal situation. Diet, health, influence of the environment, influence of associations, and habits may also be contributing causes to a situation, but each of them stands a good chance of being managed just by managing your beliefs.â€
We all intuitively feel that having a positive attitude and positive beliefs will help us survive cancer, it’s a small step from there to realise that negative attitudes, feelings of victimhood and blame and beliefs about our inability or lack of deservability etc. can be a hindrance to healing. If we try to believe positive thoughts over our unacknowledged negative thoughts and attitudes it sets up an internal struggle and uses up our creative energy and the results are uncertain.
Supporters of the viewpoint that a positive attitude is enough to help one combat cancer were recently disappointed with the publication of a long-term clinical study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Researchers found that emotional well-being is not an independent factor affecting the prognosis of patients.
However, having a positive mental attitude does not necessarily mean that one believes that one can, or will, survive; a cancer patient can have a positive outlook and still firmly believe that they have no control or responsibility for what happens to them.
Clinical research can show the power of belief as it is manifested as the well known placebo effect. A recent study carried out by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that was awarded the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine demonstrated that expensive fake medicine is more effective than inexpensive fake medicine. Participants in the study were given placebo pills (inactive sugar pills) and informed that they were trialling analgesics similar to codeine. Half of the participants were informed that the drug had a regular price of $2.50 per pill and half that the price had been discounted to $0.10 per pill Results showed that in the regular-price group, 85.4% of the participants experienced a mean pain reduction after taking the pill, vs 61.0% in the low-price group. What could have been different between each group? Only the value they ascribed to the medicine and therefore a mental expectation of its effectiveness. These beliefs had a direct impact on their experience of relief from pain.
From my own experience I know that I found it hard to take ownership of the beliefs that I held that would attract the experience of having cancer or hinder my path to healing. The beliefs I uncovered were not pleasant and I resisted feeling them, but when I was brave enough to honestly examine my intentions and attitudes and own the ones that were not fully aligned with living a full and happy life, I recovered so much energy and certainty in my power to create that I have a deep peace of mind and a certainty that I am a survivor.
I would never suggest to another that they are at fault for being sick or that they deserved their cancer or brought it upon themselves because I know that that is not helpful or compassionate viewpoint. But I do believe that everybody has the capacity to improve their chances of healing by managing their beliefs and focusing their creative energy on the outcome that they want to experience. In the process they might have to face some unpleasant moments of self-honesty about their negative intentions but, hey, it’s worth it.
We are prepared to undergo the rigours of surgery, radiology and chemotherapy in our quest to recovery, a willingness to become more self-conscious and responsible is much easier to face.
It’s this knowledge and experience that inspired me to write the book, ‘Survive cancer’ because I know so many cancer sufferers who are scared off from examining their beliefs because of the feelings of guilt and blame that are inevitable if they don’t have to tools to easily explore and change consciousness.
Kia ora
David
www.survivecancer.info
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roganjfr on "I need financial help!"
This Is what I need, From a cancer society, if at all possible. My name is Jim. I am a cosurvivor. My wife Deborah has been a survivor of cancer now for 15 years . We have a 15-year-old son, and we live in Taxachusetts another name for Massachusetts, within the 15 years. My wife has had mastectomies and the cancer has came back three times since last time. Unfortunately, was the worst of them all. Although each time was very difficult for us. We managed to stay strong. I've had a good job for 10 of those 15 years with good health insurance that covers all my wife's treatment for almost 2 years ago when the cancer came back the third time her doctor at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston that she had two to four years to live, because the cancer has spread through her bones. But she would receive treatment and be on medication narcotics arrests of her life. I don't have to tell you each time the cancer came back into our lives had devastating. It was, but I must say, this third time, blew us away. But we remain strong what else can one do but take things one day at a time or tried to hit if need be. We would take it at a minute at a time that day we went home. And we sat down with our son Kenneth and told him what the doctor had told us. We still remained strong, as we could, I've always stood by my wife and will continue to do so. I know what is coming and what things will be like even the further down the road. Although I always hoped to be more prepared for them than I am today. I even tried very hard to be prepared. I had a very good job. Basically, I just wanted to make my wife's life here each day, she has left no matter how many that may be as happy as I possibly could, having a good job. That shouldn't be too hard. Then in November of 2008. My company decided to what ever reason, and excuses they came up with to lay me off. But one thing that I feared the most and I say the most because I already know what the outcome will be with my wife's cancer. I am working on a ! try to d o, as I've spoken of make her last days. Happy as I can, but I knew if I ever lost my job. I would lose my insurance. That was my worst fear that I knew that I would be no longer making money I am not an educated person, nor is my life. I am 50 years old. I am a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, 28 years. Sober and clean. Like I said, I pretty much At to gather pretty good throughout the 15 years. Up to about a year and a half ago, when everything started to hit us at once. We no longer had insurance. My wife's prescriptions, OxyContin oxycodone, just to name a couple. I asked Dana-Farber three or four weeks before I knew it would be losing my insurance I asked them outright. What do we do, what do you do to stop treating her and she dies sooner that is pretty much how I asked them. A lady from Dana-Farber e-mailed me back and told me not to worry. They would continue treating her fantastic. She only receives "only" two types of treatment at Dana-Farber was given to her every three months, intravenously. This is to help prolong the cancer eating away at her bones. We were told this particular treatment would only work for so long one to three years. It lasted almost 2 years, they will still continue to give her this treatment, but they added a second treatment, which we knew they would do once particular treatments stopped doing what they were supposed to be doing. The second treatment consist of a shot once a month. Eventually, she will need other treatments. She takes her medication without the OxyContin and the oxycodone, her whole body aches severely if she coughs too hard. She can crack one of her ribs, and she has done so before. We tried to do what we can to prevent her from getting sick. If she catches a cold. It could turn into something severe like pneumonia a couple of months ago. This did happen, this was a very scary time for us, I have been reaching out for help from different cancer societies everything is politics and money. And I have been getting very upset. ! On top of being very depressed myself, which has only been for about a year and half since everything started falling apart. I used to be able to do everything and anything I could now I as the cosurvivor feel like I'm losing my own health and for this makes my wife and family suffered even more. It's pretty difficult when you so depressed. You can't seem to put 1 foot in front of the other won't know whether or not you are making right decisions I myself was on antidepressants and high blood pressure pills. I stopped taking both prescriptions. I have no choice my wife's prescriptions need to come first and foremost. We were never rich like I said we were two very hard working people who worked very hard to get up to where we are in life today. We live in a nice apartment, which eventually I will no longer be able to afford. And we have a decent car that we keep in good shape, because we have to travel to Boston for her treatment I asked myself why do I have to say as much as I am saying me because I don't want somebody to suggest something that I already know it doesn't work. I've tried so many different things, talking to different people, which still going through problems now with her medications because of us having no insurance. I tried to take care of most of this way in advance. One lady at a cancer society mentioned to us to go to Mass health insurance. You would think something like this would be easy I told her over the phone. I'm at the point where I don't even want to make a phone call, any more this would have been so much easier for me to do before I began getting deeper and deeper into depression and I told her this. If we had somebody working with us. Not looking in the phone book for places for us to go and fill out paperwork. People that know what is available to us and what is not that to me sounded pretty simple. Like I said in the beginning, my biggest concern now is that my wife does not suffer any of her last days. There should be no need for if this is my fault than I ! will dea l with it. If there is no help out there, and that's just the way it is. I think these are very simple questions that I have been looking for the right people to answer particular social worker said she would get back to me. I e-mailed her a few times, about two weeks later she got back to me after one morning I woke up and my wife was gone. And she went to the local hospital to have them help her fill out the Mass health insurance forms. That was four weeks ago yes, four weeks ago. Still no insurance, yet then this lady called me back. And she's given me a place to call that offer financial assistance on medication. fantastic we will do whenever it takes if we qualify so we went to Boston after doctors fill out paperwork. We filled out our pot. We sent it in with a $25 co-pay. We don't even know were accepted yet, and it could take three to four weeks. Wonderful. Then today we finally got what we were waiting for a letter in the mail from Mass health insurance. They wanted us to fill them out again they didn't get them go figure. My wife went back down the hospital where she had them filled out I guess because their computers were broke down. The lady mail them in, the guy at the hospital my wife told me spent about 30 minutes on the phone with them. For them to look through their mail and yes they were there. So they'll do will have to wait another four weeks. That's why I can't stand Massachusetts first of all, every one in Massachusetts has health insurance. Right wrong in the meantime, because my wife can take the pills that were working for her, because we could not afford over $1000 a month. They gave her something else that would only cost us $200. So we took the money out of my son's bank accounts went to Boston and pick them up. My wife takes them for two days in pain still. But now you can add noxious and what ever else, her doctors get together again and give her something else to try methadone. This was good because it only costs $10 we went to Boston. Once again pic! ked it u p. It does not work so my wife was taking like I said OxyContin and oxycodone is 60 mg. Those are the ones that are like $800, along with other medications. it came out to like over $1000 plus she was taking 15 mg during the day. Whenever she needed them to 15 mg or that expensive. So she tells her doctor, how come I can't just take more of the 15 mg low and behold that's what she's doing now. It costs $65 for a hundred, but it seems to be working. Some people may think how can I write all of this or type all of this. While I am not unfortunately because of my education. I cannot spell. I can read, but I can't spell so, long time ago, I invested in some software that helps me do this. So if you find a word that don't belong. I apologize. I don't usually have time to check what it is writing I try to. Now, I would like to just try to tell you what type of help. That I think we need, if it is out there. At first, I definitely wanted support and still do with somebody local that I've tried to find another caregiver. That has knowledge of what's going on a family life when they're dealing with cancer. I know what's going on in our life from inside the point of view, but it would've been nice to have somebody that could be there to help us out at all mean. Clean our apartment or anything like that to be there for that hug when we need it, so emotional support. Understanding and knowing where not a lone I asked for this also. When I was talking to a couple of social workers don't know where that conversation went. But knowing where we live knowing that I've gone from making X. amount of money. Too much much less amount of money. Basically, my wife collect Social Security that pays rent. I collect Worker's Compensation don't know for how long that pretty much covers half of our other bills, Dana-Farber has given us in the past some food cards which was very appreciated. Living in Massachusetts is very high in rent to begin with, and being 50 years old is not easy for me to start over wi! th, what is going on in our life but I know I have to, so somehow I have to get stronger I have a sister that lives in Pensacola Florida and my nephew has a house. He will rent use very cheap and the first tool of three months free until we get settled. He lives in Pennsylvania. He is a minister there. I have a very good possibility of getting a job there. It will not be making it much as I made here that's for sure, but it doesn't matter, because we will be able to afford to live there. This I think would be kind of nice for my wife's last days in life. However, many. She has left and our son can finish his last three years of high school there. Plus we would have my sister who we are both close to helping us through the days ahead. In about a half a year more my wife should also be eligible for Medicare or Medicaid whichever it is i am almost positive I too will have insurance again once I start working. This would be a big move for use but adding up all the good in all the bad it is the right thing to do. To do any of this. I need a hospital that will my wife's treatment in pensacola florida and knowing a situation will be able to help us with some kind of temporary insurance until I get working. Or just do what Dana-Farber is doing with the treatments. She is receiving now this would mean a lock to us. If this was possible. It seems like there is no way of digging ourselves out here. I am hoping that there are some of the same opportunities as far as helping someone who is uninsured, who has been given by a doctor X. amount of time to live but actually be able to do it and not talk about it or say they can. My wife was also supposed to have a CAT scan done every four months. This indicates whether the treatment is continuing to work or not, and it also tells the doctor how much more. And where the cancer is spreading. She is supposed to receive this, along with those two treatments. She was supposed to have a CAT scan done two weeks ago the hospital called and asked us politely. How do ! we inten d to pay for let me see are sons bank account is now empty, by the way I thought would take care of this needless to say, my wife had to cancel the CAT scan. Well, I don't really think there's anything anybody can do out there, but I figured I would post this anyways who knows. I do believe in miracles and God, I know God works through people. Recently I've been getting feelings like that's not the case right now for use so we really don't know what his plan is for us. I don't know what's funs are available out there for use, I do hope there is a way that we can do this. And I also hope that we don't spend all our time looking for a cure, and I hope we can all remember that there are survivors out there in need of help now not later when it is too late I will do anything to help find a cure for this terrible disease that women and men go through mostly women than men but still. It is a terrible disease. I'll walk for a cure for cancer, wear pink like we have and we still do, and we will continue to pray for those who are in the process of losing their fight. Like my wife. You can send any messages you like, to this message board or directly to me it does not matter. I appreciate any advice any insight that anyone has to offer. I am really hoping that someone has to offer, what we are looking for. Thank you so much for reading this, and God bless you roganjfr@comcast.net jim,deb,kenneth
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NicLaTesta on "Just what the Doctor ordered - Conventional Medicine and Treamtments"
I was reading NaturalNews.com (great site) and found this article, "Conventional Cancer Treatments Bankrupting Patients, Families". It's so unfortunate that conventional therapies (regardless of how successful they might be) are really putting patients and their families in a financial hardship. http://www.naturalnews.com/026049.html
The fog that follows chemotherapy
bigphez on "I need financial help!"
I just finished reading your blog, for the second time. I have much to say, and much the same fears and similar situation. Not quite as drastic, but I see the possibilities all the time. But for now I have to digest your pain and think about you for a little while. Please know you are not alone. People need to tell these stories and people need to ask for help and hopefully people will respond. I wish you and your family strength, you are all very special. I will be in touch.
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Just found out my Bro in law has liver & lung cancer, See report below:
Mouth cancer expert calls for booze abstinence
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kavi123 on "test for gene mutations"
Although a genetic cancer testing for gene mutations known to significantly increase the risk of hereditary breast or ovarian cancer has been available for more than a decade, a new study finds that few women with family histories of these cancers are even discussing genetic testing with their physicians or other health-care providers.
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Know Cancer is an amazing website they are truly helping people in need. When I learn how can I link your Website to mine so people checking out www.healincomfort.com can be linked to your amazing, helpful, website?
thank you for helping people in the battle against cancer
Cherie Mathews
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My mom and uncle both passed away from Breast Cancer. In their honor, I have created BC merchandise where I donate a % of sales to the cancer society. All merchandise is customizable and good for fund raising. I invite you to take a look. God Bless!
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AmandaP on "Anyone here live in PA, NJ or NY?"
I was just curious if anyone on this site lives in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or New York? I Was born and raised in central Jersey and currently live in the beautiful Poconos (PA) about 5 miles from the NJ border, near the Delaware Water Gap. I go to Easton Hospital for treatments in Easton, PA. I'd love to meet other people of any age or gender that live near me!
LauraSavageau on "Eat Well, Live Well, Be Well!!! - Nutrition, diet, exercise, meditation, yoga, e"
"disease usually arises from our own discontent within ourselves and our bodies. So by healing our state of mind is to heal our whole self"
- what a great statement flying sorcerer....we create our own reality so we must create the environment of which we want to inhabit. :) I think so many of us don't realize how our minds can cause a lot of the body's ailments.
Researchers identify new, cancer-causing role for protein
HOUSTON - The mainstay immune system protein TRAF6 plays an unexpected, key role activating a cell signaling molecule that in mutant form is associated with cancer growth, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the Aug. 28 edition of Science.
Small Peptide Found To Stop Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Mice
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. â€" In new animal research done by investigators at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, scientists have discovered a treatment effective in mice at blocking the growth and shrinking the size of lung cancer tumors, one of the leading causes of cancer death in the world.
The study, recently published in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, is the first to show that treatment with a specific peptide, angiotensin-(1-7), reduces lung tumor growth by inhibiting blood vessel formation.
roganjfr on "I need financial help!"
This Is what I need, From a cancer society, if at all possible. My name is Jim. I am a cosurvivor. My wife Deborah has been a survivor of cancer now for 15 years . We have a 15-year-old son, and we live in Taxachusetts another name for Massachusetts, within the 15 years. My wife has had mastectomies and the cancer has came back three times since last time. Unfortunately, was the worst of them all. Although each time was very difficult for us. We managed to stay strong. I've had a good job for 10 of those 15 years with good health insurance that covers all my wife's treatment for almost 2 years ago when the cancer came back the third time her doctor at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston that she had two to four years to live, because the cancer has spread through her bones. But she would receive treatment and be on medication narcotics arrests of her life. I don't have to tell you each time the cancer came back into our lives had devastating. It was, but I must say, this third time, blew us away. But we remain strong what else can one do but take things one day at a time or tried to hit if need be. We would take it at a minute at a time that day we went home. And we sat down with our son Kenneth and told him what the doctor had told us. We still remained strong, as we could, I've always stood by my wife and will continue to do so. I know what is coming and what things will be like even the further down the road. Although I always hoped to be more prepared for them than I am today. I even tried very hard to be prepared. I had a very good job. Basically, I just wanted to make my wife's life here each day, she has left no matter how many that may be as happy as I possibly could, having a good job. That shouldn't be too hard. Then in November of 2008. My company decided to what ever reason, and excuses they came up with to lay me off. But one thing that I feared the most and I say the most because I already know what the outcome will be with my wife's cancer. I am working on a ! try to d o, as I've spoken of make her last days. Happy as I can, but I knew if I ever lost my job. I would lose my insurance. That was my worst fear that I knew that I would be no longer making money I am not an educated person, nor is my life. I am 50 years old. I am a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, 28 years. Sober and clean. Like I said, I pretty much At to gather pretty good throughout the 15 years. Up to about a year and a half ago, when everything started to hit us at once. We no longer had insurance. My wife's prescriptions, OxyContin oxycodone, just to name a couple. I asked Dana-Farber three or four weeks before I knew it would be losing my insurance I asked them outright. What do we do, what do you do to stop treating her and she dies sooner that is pretty much how I asked them. A lady from Dana-Farber e-mailed me back and told me not to worry. They would continue treating her fantastic. She only receives "only" two types of treatment at Dana-Farber was given to her every three months, intravenously. This is to help prolong the cancer eating away at her bones. We were told this particular treatment would only work for so long one to three years. It lasted almost 2 years, they will still continue to give her this treatment, but they added a second treatment, which we knew they would do once particular treatments stopped doing what they were supposed to be doing. The second treatment consist of a shot once a month. Eventually, she will need other treatments. She takes her medication without the OxyContin and the oxycodone, her whole body aches severely if she coughs too hard. She can crack one of her ribs, and she has done so before. We tried to do what we can to prevent her from getting sick. If she catches a cold. It could turn into something severe like pneumonia a couple of months ago. This did happen, this was a very scary time for us, I have been reaching out for help from different cancer societies everything is politics and money. And I have been getting very upset. ! On top of being very depressed myself, which has only been for about a year and half since everything started falling apart. I used to be able to do everything and anything I could now I as the cosurvivor feel like I'm losing my own health and for this makes my wife and family suffered even more. It's pretty difficult when you so depressed. You can't seem to put 1 foot in front of the other won't know whether or not you are making right decisions I myself was on antidepressants and high blood pressure pills. I stopped taking both prescriptions. I have no choice my wife's prescriptions need to come first and foremost. We were never rich like I said we were two very hard working people who worked very hard to get up to where we are in life today. We live in a nice apartment, which eventually I will no longer be able to afford. And we have a decent car that we keep in good shape, because we have to travel to Boston for her treatment I asked myself why do I have to say as much as I am saying me because I don't want somebody to suggest something that I already know it doesn't work. I've tried so many different things, talking to different people, which still going through problems now with her medications because of us having no insurance. I tried to take care of most of this way in advance. One lady at a cancer society mentioned to us to go to Mass health insurance. You would think something like this would be easy I told her over the phone. I'm at the point where I don't even want to make a phone call, any more this would have been so much easier for me to do before I began getting deeper and deeper into depression and I told her this. If we had somebody working with us. Not looking in the phone book for places for us to go and fill out paperwork. People that know what is available to us and what is not that to me sounded pretty simple. Like I said in the beginning, my biggest concern now is that my wife does not suffer any of her last days. There should be no need for if this is my fault than I ! will dea l with it. If there is no help out there, and that's just the way it is. I think these are very simple questions that I have been looking for the right people to answer particular social worker said she would get back to me. I e-mailed her a few times, about two weeks later she got back to me after one morning I woke up and my wife was gone. And she went to the local hospital to have them help her fill out the Mass health insurance forms. That was four weeks ago yes, four weeks ago. Still no insurance, yet then this lady called me back. And she's given me a place to call that offer financial assistance on medication. fantastic we will do whenever it takes if we qualify so we went to Boston after doctors fill out paperwork. We filled out our pot. We sent it in with a $25 co-pay. We don't even know were accepted yet, and it could take three to four weeks. Wonderful. Then today we finally got what we were waiting for a letter in the mail from Mass health insurance. They wanted us to fill them out again they didn't get them go figure. My wife went back down the hospital where she had them filled out I guess because their computers were broke down. The lady mail them in, the guy at the hospital my wife told me spent about 30 minutes on the phone with them. For them to look through their mail and yes they were there. So they'll do will have to wait another four weeks. That's why I can't stand Massachusetts first of all, every one in Massachusetts has health insurance. Right wrong in the meantime, because my wife can take the pills that were working for her, because we could not afford over $1000 a month. They gave her something else that would only cost us $200. So we took the money out of my son's bank accounts went to Boston and pick them up. My wife takes them for two days in pain still. But now you can add noxious and what ever else, her doctors get together again and give her something else to try methadone. This was good because it only costs $10 we went to Boston. Once again pic! ked it u p. It does not work so my wife was taking like I said OxyContin and oxycodone is 60 mg. Those are the ones that are like $800, along with other medications. it came out to like over $1000 plus she was taking 15 mg during the day. Whenever she needed them to 15 mg or that expensive. So she tells her doctor, how come I can't just take more of the 15 mg low and behold that's what she's doing now. It costs $65 for a hundred, but it seems to be working. Some people may think how can I write all of this or type all of this. While I am not unfortunately because of my education. I cannot spell. I can read, but I can't spell so, long time ago, I invested in some software that helps me do this. So if you find a word that don't belong. I apologize. I don't usually have time to check what it is writing I try to. Now, I would like to just try to tell you what type of help. That I think we need, if it is out there. At first, I definitely wanted support and still do with somebody local that I've tried to find another caregiver. That has knowledge of what's going on a family life when they're dealing with cancer. I know what's going on in our life from inside the point of view, but it would've been nice to have somebody that could be there to help us out at all mean. Clean our apartment or anything like that to be there for that hug when we need it, so emotional support. Understanding and knowing where not a lone I asked for this also. When I was talking to a couple of social workers don't know where that conversation went. But knowing where we live knowing that I've gone from making X. amount of money. Too much much less amount of money. Basically, my wife collect Social Security that pays rent. I collect Worker's Compensation don't know for how long that pretty much covers half of our other bills, Dana-Farber has given us in the past some food cards which was very appreciated. Living in Massachusetts is very high in rent to begin with, and being 50 years old is not easy for me to start over wi! th, what is going on in our life but I know I have to, so somehow I have to get stronger I have a sister that lives in Pensacola Florida and my nephew has a house. He will rent use very cheap and the first tool of three months free until we get settled. He lives in Pennsylvania. He is a minister there. I have a very good possibility of getting a job there. It will not be making it much as I made here that's for sure, but it doesn't matter, because we will be able to afford to live there. This I think would be kind of nice for my wife's last days in life. However, many. She has left and our son can finish his last three years of high school there. Plus we would have my sister who we are both close to helping us through the days ahead. In about a half a year more my wife should also be eligible for Medicare or Medicaid whichever it is i am almost positive I too will have insurance again once I start working. This would be a big move for use but adding up all the good in all the bad it is the right thing to do. To do any of this. I need a hospital that will my wife's treatment in pensacola florida and knowing a situation will be able to help us with some kind of temporary insurance until I get working. Or just do what Dana-Farber is doing with the treatments. She is receiving now this would mean a lock to us. If this was possible. It seems like there is no way of digging ourselves out here. I am hoping that there are some of the same opportunities as far as helping someone who is uninsured, who has been given by a doctor X. amount of time to live but actually be able to do it and not talk about it or say they can. My wife was also supposed to have a CAT scan done every four months. This indicates whether the treatment is continuing to work or not, and it also tells the doctor how much more. And where the cancer is spreading. She is supposed to receive this, along with those two treatments. She was supposed to have a CAT scan done two weeks ago the hospital called and asked us politely. How do ! we inten d to pay for let me see are sons bank account is now empty, by the way I thought would take care of this needless to say, my wife had to cancel the CAT scan. Well, I don't really think there's anything anybody can do out there, but I figured I would post this anyways who knows. I do believe in miracles and God, I know God works through people. Recently I've been getting feelings like that's not the case right now for use so we really don't know what his plan is for us. I don't know what's funs are available out there for use, I do hope there is a way that we can do this. And I also hope that we don't spend all our time looking for a cure, and I hope we can all remember that there are survivors out there in need of help now not later when it is too late I will do anything to help find a cure for this terrible disease that women and men go through mostly women than men but still. It is a terrible disease. I'll walk for a cure for cancer, wear pink like we have and we still do, and we will continue to pray for those who are in the process of losing their fight. Like my wife. You can send any messages you like, to this message board or directly to me it does not matter. I appreciate any advice any insight that anyone has to offer. I am really hoping that someone has to offer, what we are looking for. Thank you so much for reading this, and God bless you roganjfr@comcast.net jim,deb,kenneth