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Jan Aarnio - 09 May 2005 10:04 GMT
Hey, im 22 years old guy from finland and i'm desperately looking for more
information about cancer,
and most importantly, availible cures. My grandmother was diagnosted a
cancer in her stomach for years ago
and it was operated, ever since then she has had "kemotherapies" (or is it
chemo.. in english?) and several
other methods to cure the cancer all the way, now recently the doctors said
that the cancer has spread to her
Spleen, and to spleens "fatty tissue", which is kinda impossible to have
treatment for in finland..

So here's my question(s): Is there any known medicine/treatment availible
for this in the world? Also if there's
any hospital in any other country that could operate on a case like
this...Money isn't that big problem because
our whole family is willing to support my grannie financially

or is there any other type of information about cancers that has spread to
spleen i should know about?

Thank you so much in advance!

Yours truly

Jan Aarnio

P.S

I can be also contacted by phone if needed/preferred

+358 40 9104194
Danny - 09 May 2005 14:10 GMT
Hello,

Maybe it would be the best if you ask oncologists in Finland to
recommend yoy some medical facility abroad for the treatment,although I
know that Finland is amongst most developed countries in
Europe.Splenectomy(removal of the spleen) can be done,I suppose,but I
am sure that such operation can be done in Finland.I wish you all the
best.
Jeff - 10 May 2005 17:25 GMT
> Hello,
>
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> am sure that such operation can be done in Finland.I wish you all the
> best.

Splenectomy might be really dangerous because with the cancer spread there,
there  may be major risk of major bleeding. Quite frankly, my guess is that
the cancer has spread beyound her stomach and spleen. Unfortunately, I doubt
there is much that can be done to cure her. The only things that can be done
are to make her final time better. Anyway, without further information,
anything we say will really be a guess.

I think you need to talk with the family members who are the ones who have
talked most to the doctors and understand what has happened (of course, I am
jump to the conclusion that you didn't do this). In the US, usually one or a
few people are the ones who talk most with the doctor (in this case, one or
a few of her kids along with her husband, if the earth is still blessed with
him would be most liekly), and those people talk with the rest of the
family. I suspect it is similar in Finland.

After do this, you may wish to get a second opinion, either from another
hospital in Finland or one in Europe or North America.

There are many excellent hospitals in Europe and the US (including Stanford,
Johns Hopkins, Harvard, NYU, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn, Fox Chase and
Duke in the US). And you can get a second opinion in some cases by sending
any CT, MRI, etc., scans as well as progress notes to the other hospital,
although she might be required to do there as well (for obvious reasons).

Anyway, my thoughts and prayers are with you.

Jeff
 
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