This may be the wrong group to ask this, but I don't know where else to
start. Perhaps someone can suggest that for me.
For the past few months I've been having mild pain in my left lower
back during a couple of unusual times: just as I feel the need to have

My dad is suffering from Oesophagus cancer. He has a lump there which
prevents him from eating anything substantial.
He is 67 and because he has had a stroke they won't operate. They have
giving him a 6 weeks course of chemo which shrunk the tumour and he was able

I'm a 57yr old retired firefighter living in the San Francisco Bay area.
I've been diagnosed with stage 2b NPC.  There is no node involvement and no
symptoms other than partially blocked nasal passages.  I am being treated at
Stanford's Cancer clinic.  I'm scheduled for mask ...

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By LISA PRIEST
Saturday, September 17, 2005 Updated at 2:00 AM EDT
From Saturday's Globe and Mail

I am writing this from my hospital bed at the Don Monti Cancer Center
in Huntington Hospital.. I am a single mother of 4 children. The
department of social service has been providing me and my children with
"EMERGENCY HOUSING" since this past May. (one of my children was having

I have started a Merkel Cell Cancer Group here at Google Groups.  This
is a group dedicated to those that have experienced Merkel Cell Cancer,
their family members, or those supporting the care of a patient with
MCC.

I have emailed about my BIL before, and now his wife, my sister, wants to
know if it could be the drugs he is on which make him disoriented, confused,
etc.
Presently he is taking relafen, zofran, emcyte  taxol,and kytrel.  He has

Well, as a result of turtletrot's post, I found this. Avastin's not the
only one implicated.
It's one thing to take neoadjuvant (before surgery) or adjuvant (post
surgery) chemotherapy, but for a recurrence of and/or a non-curable

gsh4me@yahoo.ca
Jorge
has also invaded the breast cancer newsgroup.
Put him in your filters.

      Don't know if you can help me , an article in  the Mail recently
claimed a solution of gallium Nitrate, rubbed into the affected are helped
alleveiate the symptoms of arthritis    First discovered by grooms rubbing
it into horses feet as a remedy for navicular desease ...

Hi, my wife had a mole taken off 5 years ago from behind her right ear, it
was malignant melonoma but a wide cut was taken and we were told it was a
clean cut and she would need to go to clinic as a precaution!
   Nothing has ever shown itself until may of this year when a small ...

I'm doing M.Sc in medicine, interesting in oncology.
In 1988 in Ukraine my grandfather was diagnosed gastric cancer. Because
of his age (87) and the advance stage of the disease he wasn't given
any conventional treatment.

LOOKING AT BREASTS MAKES MEN LIVE LONGER ....................says a New
England Journal of Medicine.
Staring at boobs for just 10 minutes a day is equal to 30 minutes of
aerobics, says the study. Men can live longer, healthier, happier lives by

My father's painful struggle ended Sunday morning.  He passed away
peacefully.  Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) -- tumors at liver, lung, and right thigh
bone -- was the cause.  
I have not been very "active" here on the newsgroup since my original post

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