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| liver cancer | 29 Dec 2007 18:26 GMT | 1 |
What is Liver Cancer? There are two main kinds of liver cancer. Heptoma and cholangiocarcinoma. Heptoma is cancer of the hepatocytes. (The main functioning liver cell). Hepatoma is primary liver cancer. Hepatoma
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| Treating Cancer With Low Dose Naltrexone | 25 Dec 2007 01:02 GMT | 1 |
Naltrexone is a medication approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treating heroin and opium addiction. In very low doses, it is proving to be amazingly effective in treating certain types of cancer--including breast cancer--with minimal side effects and at a
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| reconstructed/saline implant question | 21 Dec 2007 00:58 GMT | 5 |
I have a textured anatomical (pretty small!) implant. Why does it have a valve? I saw it in the office and OR to my recollection it was just an avoid sleeve with fluid inside. Yet now that it's part of my body it has a hard circular valve-like thing. I can't find a picture on the ...
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| Could Be Phony But... | 17 Dec 2007 14:48 GMT | 3 |
A friend told me that the Faith Middleton Show on WIPER on 12/10/07 had a interview with an MD from Yale University describing research -- apparently there is some indication that anti-depressants help to kill cancer cells. The clinical trials are not yet for humans.
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| Radiation | 13 Dec 2007 10:31 GMT | 1 |
I need some advice please. I went to see my doc today, and was shocked when I saw her. She had a baseball cap on, and had lost her hair due to breast cancer. It broke my heart. She is a wonderful doc.
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| Second Primary Tumor | 12 Dec 2007 09:41 GMT | 10 |
My name is Yvonne and I just found this group. I read the past postings and am encouraged to join in the discussions. After 13 years in remission from stage 1 IDC with a very aggressive type of tumor, another primary tumor was detected in my other breast. This time it is also ...
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| More than 5 years on Femara? | 11 Dec 2007 13:16 GMT | 2 |
Feb 2000 my wfie was diagnosed with BC, stage 2 (6 lymph nodes). Surgery/Chemo/Radiation all OK for two years until a scare. A blip on a bone scan sent everyone running but it turned out to be arthritis (CAT scan showed no cancer). The scare caused her onc to change her
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| The price of life. | 11 Dec 2007 12:14 GMT | 25 |
In an article in this week's New Scientist ( 1 Dec 07, p8-9) Leonard Saltz of Sloan-Kettering is quoted as saying that with new drugs we are getting to the situation that he could offer a hypothetical cancer patient 11 months of life for $500 or 22 months for $250,000. (Bowel
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| Arimedex warning | 09 Dec 2007 23:37 GMT | 2 |
After I started on Arimedex I would have severe pain in my joints. The pain moved around and came and went. I asked my oncologist if the Arimedex could be causing it and he said "No way" I was told by other doctors that it certainly could and furthermore it could develope into
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| Prevent Ductal Breast Cancer By Regularly "Drainin g" Or "Pumping" A Women's Breast Ducts | 03 Dec 2007 10:23 GMT | 9 |
My wife's bout with ductal breast cancer led me to theorize that this epidemic may have a simple common denominator and that some simple oversight in the general population could be a contributing factor. http://www.capturecancer ...
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| Breast Cancer Symptoms | 02 Dec 2007 14:33 GMT | 4 |
Cancer is a term for diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control. Cancer can spread through the bloodstream and invade nearby tissues. It can spread into the lymphatic system into other parts of one's body. There are numerous types of cancer. Cancer that begins in
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