He was in hospital recently from coughing up what looked like coffee
grounds. They discharged him after a week. i had a meeting with the dr and
he said that the prognosis for liver metastisis is 6 months, dad has had it
for 2 1/2 years. he also said that dad has only a few months ...

I'm a 37 year old male recently diaganosed with stage 3 stomach cancer.
A sub total gastrectomy was done leaving me a third of my stomach.The
cancer had reached the surrounding lymph nodes but no other organs. I'm
scheduled to begin radiation and chemo at the first of the month ...

yeah. this will be my first post here.
i am 20 years old, and i live in central florida. i was recently
diagnosed with dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans. recently as in the day
after a mjor hurricane (charlie). i had my tumor removed from the side

Just a progress report.
I have now had 10 of the 20 radiotherapy sessions scheduled and am feeling
OK - a bit tired at times.
I have also had a conversation with the senior oncologist and really what it

I started at the closest one to my house (recommended by my trusted MD).
Because of differences in opinion and bad counseling I was going to move
to another more famous one farther away.
The people at the more famous one struck me like an ordinary hospital

Thanks for the earlier responses.
Elyce (my 10 year old sister) is now in a state called "Cerebellar Mutism"
since her surgery 9 days ago. She has been like this since awakening about
24-48 hours after surgery. I have been reading articles regarding this

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Dear people of this group.
I apologise for taking your time but please allow me a few minutes to
explain things.
You have recentely seen some posts from myself and others about the man

Hello Group,
thanks for the support, it seems that a lot of people are writing in,
anyway my Uncle, has been sent home from Hospital after they finally did a
test for MRSA , and it was positive,

i got some pretty good news from my friend tonight...and i wanted to share
it with someone. :)
Alysa has had 4 chemo infusions... and had to have all her test done to see
if the protocol was working. if it wasn't they were going to take a more

Mel,
I am very sorry that I responded to a troll on your post, you have no need
to read such crap at his awful time. Please accept my sincere apologies as I
realise that by responding I inadvertantly sidestepped kill files.

Dad just told me that he lost his hair. He said it happened very fast. His
entire beard went first, then he was brushing his hair and it said all of it
came out except about 2 hairs total. Havent seen him yet- but this will be a
shock. Dad always had full, thick hair, and a beard ...

I was just told that a mass under my fingernail is squamous cell
carcinoma.  The initial info I found on the net indicates this may not be
a big deal.   But the doctor started off with amputating the finger tip as
one way to be 100% sure the cancer is gone.  He also brought up some ...

I am a 28 year old male.  During a routine physical about 8 months ago,
my doctor thought I had blood in my stool.  Erroring on the side of
caution, he recommended that I get a colonoscopy.  The colonoscopy came
out fine and the doctor who performed it said that he didn't see any

I'm soOOOOooo sorry you're post has been trashed due to _everyone_ who keeps
ON posting off topic in it.  My heart goes out to you.  I don't post a lot
in here, but I'm here b/c my mom has cancer.  Her CATscan was done yesterday
and we'll know the results on Monday (to see if ...