I had a CT of my heart done to determine blockage (calcium) risk.
Fortunately it was really good, but the CT results showed something
else.  It said that I had incompletely visualized (since the CT was of
the heart and not the chest) moderately prominent mediastinal lymph

Need some info on adult unoperable brain stem tumor in the pons area wrapped
around the many nerve fibers that control almost everything in your body.
i have had 8 radiation treatments so far, was scheduded for 20  and possibly
more if needed.

I know someone with long term kidney probs who had a transplant
recently. Shorly afterwards, a tumour was discovered in the new kidney
and it had to be removed.  She suspects it was in the new kidney before
she got it, but doesn't know.

I'm trying to provide support for a friend (southern Chinese parents but
he's born in the USA). A diagnosis has been made by biopsy but staging
is not complete. He and his wife just learned about it so they're still
in those initial awful days after diagnosis. My past experience ...

While at the current time being supportive of a friend with stage four lung
cancer, I've been dealing with a number of strange symptoms of my own for
many months.
After having my blood tested and the internist telling me my numbers were

I have been running united devices on my computer for years, trying to help
find a cure... Recently, I have switched over to running their original
Think program from www.find-a-drug.com. It is supposed to be a lot faster
and the results go to non-profit orgs...

who got dealt a bad hand, but continued playing cards.
who I never saw or heard boasting about his various skiills.
who I never saw "talking down" to anyone.
who made us better because of who he was.

Imagine your in the prime of your life and you find out you have
cancer.  That's exactly what happened to my 31 year old wife.  In
January of 2005 a tumor was found in her chest that measured 8 x 6 x
5.5 cm. The diagnoses was Nodular Sclerosing Hodgkin's Lymphoma based

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

Gloria/Figgertoes has asked me to write an obituary, and I am hoping to
get it in the Monday 9-12 Denver Post.
I've read Charlie's blog, and I'm hoping some of the regulars here
might be willing to refer me to some of Charlie's most memorable posts.

Dear Fig,
I wish you every strength to help you with today. I hope your celebration of
Sock's life is as full of love and laughter as it is possible to be. I will
be thinking of you.

I have just put together a website aimed specifically at the treatment of
prostate cancer by external beam radiotherapy. It is oreintated towards the
UK NHS but the discussion about hormones, escalating the dose and
hypofractionation has general applicability. The URL is

Our Charlie (Socks) died yesterday evening at 7 PM.  His was a peaceful
death following days of uncontrollable pain.  Words cannot express how much
I will miss him.  Since I have no words, I will post one of Charlie's
favorite quotes, one he lived by:

So with lecithin now been SHOWN to cross the epidermis .. if one were
to include fresh vitamin C in the bottle of fresh lecithin .. what
would the 'shelf life' .. be .. ?
Since lecithin is being used as a 'carrier' of drugs across the

Iron chelators in cancer chemotherapy.
Buss JL, Greene BT, Turner J, Torti FM, Torti SV
Curr Top Med Chem. 2004; 4(15): 1623-35
Iron chelators may be of value as therapeutic agents in the treatment