Hi everyone;
   I'm a 29 year old male that was recently diagnosed with Hodgkin's
Disease, "nodular sclerosing" subtype.  I just got my diagnosis from
pathology reports a few days ago.  I haven't been 'staged' yet, but I have a

Thanks to Tim for hosting it.
http://www.cancersupporters.com/asc/charter.html [Excerpts and notes]
This FAQ is intended to provide detailed information about
alt.support.cancer to the users so that the alt.support.cancer newsgroup

Yes the script is filled and will start tomorrow morning. Thank Socks for
the kick right where I needed it!

To treat and to avoid (of having) cancer..........the most important
aspect one needs to deal with
isssssssssssss.........................one just need to guard
jealously in preserving the purity of your blood

I BEAT CANCER TWICE by Andy Harris.
Hello my name is Andy Harris i am 47 years old and i live in
Manchester and i Beat Cancer Twice.
I am disabled with Rheumatoid Arthritis which i have had for 7 years

My wife is 3 years post surgery for colon cancer. We consider ourselves very
lucky that hers seems to have been caught in time. But she continues to have
problems caused by the hemicolectomy she underwent. She describes it as
whooshing, that foods she eats simply don't have time ...

One of my teachers friends has a sister that was dx with a malignant
plumb-sized tumor in her breast two weeks ago. The onc. has not found any
lymph node involvement, but it's the fast-growing type cancer like my
husband has.

I had thought we had come to the end of the Socks events, but there is to
be another.  CTEPA, the organization that worked to get Colorado's recent
smoking law passed & is now close to getting the casinos covered too, is
having an event at the Pepsi Center here on March 14.  I ...

Compiled from various sources (patients, webpages)
Check with your doctors on when and if you should use any of these.
J
Starts with soft toothbrushes.

I've just returned from a brief visit to Edinburgh.
Edinburgh, where chloroform was discovered and
modern surgery was born.The benefits those early
pioneers brought to suffering humanity are incalculable.

Pam sent me 3 emails to an account I rarely visit. I just emailed her
back - it's been weeks since she emailed me.  I will post most of what
she wrote & more if/when I hear back from her:
2/9/2007

Ok I need some suggestions, ideas etc.  The decadron is driving me bonkers
now.  They have doubled my dosage and I am a raging idiot at times.  I have
been taking an occasional Xanax to try to settle down.  I am finding myself
very short tempered with people, I mean badly ...

There's a bunch of you out there who haven't checked in for quite a while.
Bronny, Bozz, Carlisle, Deck, Joe, Araik, Ipunty, JW, Maryanne, Alayne,
Judy,
Anne (bladder), Anne (ovarian), clifto, how's it going?