You might remember that my Wife has been battling Hodgkin's Lymphoma,
a cancer, for the better part of a year now. It was so advanced that
when we caught it, it was in stage 4b and they told us that the chemo
treatments would be much longer than the average length. Closer to a

    Today he woke up with a bad headache.  So bad he took pain med's.  That's a
side effect of the Velcade.  One of many.  He's now getting Velcade two times a
week for three weeks then with either a week or so off.  He also gets a bag of
fluids with it.  So I was right since they do ...

I get a RT appointment next week.
On the insurance front, sh.t hit the fan. Blue Cross just rejected a claim
from October, 2002 because it was too old (we left Blue Cross in March of
2003).  Either Rocky Mountain Cancer Center waited the better part of two

I am at the start of a relationship with a woman who is undergoing
treatment for cervical cancer. Her doctor has told her that the cancer
was caused by a strain of the human papilloma virus. Apparently there
are various strains and some are very common, but I guess this must be

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My 74-year old mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer 5 years ago
and had ovaries removed and chemo at that time.  She was free of
disease for 4 years then last fall they found a mass in her abdomen,
roughly the same spot as before.  They gave her more chemo but this

My daughter is 23 years old. She graduated from Univ. of Mich with honors as
a film production major. She has no health insurance and is supposed to move
to California on Sept. 1 to pursue her field.
During the last year, she has noticed that she has to urinate more often. It

I have only just noticed the thing on my testicle, the only way i can
describe it is it looks like a small air bubble it feels soft and i can move
it around i haven't had any pain from the area though. Gonna get the doctors
advise ASAP but would just like your ideas on it and what ...

Has anyone had any experience with a PET scan ... what it is ... how it
differs from other types of digastrics scans, etc.
Thanks
Mike

I have POA for medical care for my sister - as does my aunt.   My
sister was admitted to the hospital last night because her blood
counts were so low and she'd been having trouble breathing for a
couple days.

I kind of need to talk to some people in anonymous land about this.
My brother has been diagnosed with non small-cell lung cancer.  The
cancer was identified as being in the lower part of one of his lungs.
He had a biopsy a few days ago of his lymph nodes and the results came

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Q128. What does 'survivorship' mean?
Surviving cancer means living apparently cancer free. Survivorship

My brother was diagnosed with stage 4 renal cell carcinoma about 14 years
ago. He has had several surgeries over the years and been on various and
assorted chemo's. He was at the NIH in Bethesda, Md for about 3 month
for Interleukin-2 at the beginning. It put him in intensive care ...

anyone know of a drug interaction between ibuprofen and morphine?  I'm
taking about as much morphine or percocet as I want to, and tend to be
sleeping more than I'd like to during the day, then waking up in the middle
of the night.

My 81 year old mother was diagnosed with an adenocarcinoma of the GI
junction in September of 03.  She had been having symptoms since
March 03, but her GP resisted her seeing a gastrointerologist until
September.  She had surgery in November and the surgeon removed about