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  • Forum Post: Coping with B.E.P Chemotherapy

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    Posted 1 month ago
    Hi everyone I was just wondering if anyone here has been through BEP (Bleomycin, Etoposide, Platinol) chemotherapy for Testicular Cancer? My younger brother is just about to start 3 months of it tomorrow at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in NYC and I'm really worried about the side-effects...

  • Forum Post: Check out my blog and help raise awareness.

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    Posted 3 months ago
    Hi everyone. My name is Laura. I'm 22 and I have breast cancer. I've started a light hearted blog to tell my story. I hope this will have some tips about chemo and being young with cancer. Please have a read and share with as many of your friends as possible. If I can't give you advice...

  • Forum Post: Help raise awareness.

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    Posted 3 months ago
    Hello lovely ladies. My name is Laura. I'm 22 and I was diagnosed with breast cancer in November. I have started writing a blog. Today I was brave enough to share it with my friends. It seems to be getting lots of positive feedback. Please give it a read. It may help with a few things or at...

  • Forum Post: University and Cancer

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    Posted 4 months ago
    Hi All, I'm a first year undergrad student at university miles away from home. I was diagnosed with a type of blood cancer called Essential Thrombocythemia about 2 months into my course and over the Xmas holidays I began treatment in the form of chemo tablets (hydroxycarbamide). These chemo tablets...

  • Forum Post: Cancer at University

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    Posted 4 months ago
    Hi All, I'm a first year undergrad student at university miles away from home. I was diagnosed with a type of blood cancer called Essential Thrombocythemia about 2 months into my course and over the Xmas holidays I began treatment in the form of chemo tablets (hydroxycarbamide). These chemo tablets...

  • Forum Post: Vein Problems after Carboplatin given in the arm/ exhausted from chemo

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    Posted 6 months ago
    Has anyone gotten 1 high dose of Carboplatin in the arm instead of a port? My husband had his chemo 7 weeks ago and the veins in the arm they used swell alot and get hard It seems the more he uses that arm (of course it had to be his right one) the more the vein swells. He was hammering this weekend...

  • Forum Post: 2 months after testicle removed Lump just came up in same place

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    Posted 7 months ago
    Hello Everyone, All the questions you have helped me with in the past are much appreciated. It looks like I'm back with another though. First I'll do a little recap. In June my husband (43) was diagnosed with testicular cancer, on July 19 (he tells me he will never forget that date, you ask...

  • Forum Post: Chemo vs Radiation Stage 1 Seminoma after Orchiectomy

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    Posted 9 months ago
    My husband just had his right testicle removed with stage 1 seminoma. It has been three weeks and they say it was contained. There were also no tumor markers. He is 43 yrs old. We are not worried about fertility. And we have an elementary school child. We have experience with other type of cancer in...

  • Forum Post: Liver mets grown to cover bile duct

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    Posted 9 months ago
    My father-in-law has primary bowel cancer which has spread to his liver (mets on his liver). He's had two courses of chemotherapy and was due to start again soon, but they've had to postpone this as first of all he had impaction in his bowel and now he's become very jaundiced, which we've...

  • Forum Post: Chemo and Colostomy

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    I know this is probably the norm for getting chemo but i wondered if any other people out there experienced/experiencing the same thing. I got a colostomy fitted 3weeks before my chemotherapy started, as i have a tumour in my large colon that they are currently trying to shrink on a FOLFOX6 routine....

  • Forum Post: Same Chemo, second time around!

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    Hey all. New to this site. Just found out today that after 18 months in remission, my mum has to have chemo again. First time around, the cancer was in her abdonimal cavity (similar cells to ovarian cancer - excess liquid, etc) and was treated by a combination of TWO drugs (cannot remember...

  • Forum Post: Support for partner and in laws.

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    Posted over 2 years ago
    My father in law has just discovered that he has a tumour in his large intestine and spots on his liver and lungs. We are all completely shocked and my husband is devastated. The doctors are saying surgery and chemotherapy, but nothing more concrete at this stage as we are awaiting biopsy results...

  • Forum Post: Anyone had bad side effects on Capecitabine (xeloda)?

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    Posted over 2 years ago
    Hi all I am on my second cycle of capecitabine and having been told the only side effects I would probably get were sickness, diarrhea or hand and foot blisters I am very upset to find that I am losing my hair which the oncologist said very rarely happens and am coming out in a rash of ithcy red lumps...

  • Blog Post: glamotherapy

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    Posted over 3 years ago
    www.glamotherapy.com my story/blog.

  • Blog Post: Chemo starting very soon

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    Posted over 5 years ago
    Hi guys well been for my chat with the chemo specialist today just got back at 7 this evening from 4 this afternoon ! well finaly got my cancer graded it was stage 1 B The cancer is in my own DNA and not genetic thank gawd for my kids x and had only really just started getting going but yet they missed...
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