[cancer] The dread and fear of things

... duration. Woke up pain free, though that didn't last long. Every now and then the reality of my current situation hits me from a fresh angle. As I've observed before, when your life is such that metastatic colon cancer is good news, you're pretty deep into the Twilight Zone. (And I'm thinking Golden Earring here as much as Rod Serling.) I mean, I used to think the word "metastasis" meant "the ...

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I know I sound insane but

... don't want to give up my thyroid gland, and I don't want to have radioactive iodine and risk getting another type of cancer that might be worse as a result. Surgery increases the chances of metastasis, and metastatic tumors are always worse than primary tumors. I know that all of that's moot if I don't get rid of the primary tumor, but I just can't make a move. I start to hyperventilate whenever ...

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Monday and Halfway Through December

Today I took John's death certificate out of the house where Miranda put it for me. I was shocked -- cause of death was listed as metastatic lung cancer. The likely cause was actually pneumonia. I suppose that oncologists, like doctors who specialize in HIV, tend to get tired of seeing auxiliary infections take center stage as death occurs from TB or pneumonia or some other infection caught on top...

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[cancer] Update on cancer, surgery and chemotherapy

... bony nodule extracted during surgery was a calcified mass not found to be malignant, and the remaining nodules in my right lung are of no worry. The tumor was confirmed to be consistent with metastatic colon cancer. The oncologist thinks it's likely we've effected a surgical cure, but in order to be certain we do not have further metastases, is prescribing chemotherapy. The course will be FOLFOX...

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The fourth trial (VENICE) is evaluating aflibercept as a 1st line treatment for metastatic androgen-

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The American Cancer Society Reverses Its Strong Position on Mammograms and PSA Testing

... calculate by extrapolation that two-thirds of the duration of a breast cancer remains undetectable by the patient or physician. Long before a breast carcinoma can be detected by present technology, metastatic spread may occur and does in most cases.” This report was subsequently published in the journal representing the American Cancer Society ( Cancer ). 3 In more familiar words, Dr. ...

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[cancer] Excising the nacho; or; the surgical plan

... to full recovery. His assessment of the likelihood of the tumor being metastatic colon cancer varied widely from my oncologist's. The surgeon felt it was 70% likely to be metastatic colon cancer, 10% likely to be a primary lung cancer, and ..., the oncologist quoted 97% as the likelihood of this being metastatic colon cancer; a number which an epidemiologist friend also arrived at ...

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Catching people up

...who on Sunday seemed to be feeling kind of lousy but otherwise okay, is dying pretty quickly of metastatic pancreatic cancer. Yesterday it felt pessimistic but realistic to say she won't see Christmas; tonight I think... define "enough;" I talked to my doctor (who also lost his mother to a sudden-onset metastatic cancer) about it, and he encouraged me to withdraw. I was waiting to talk to my parents ...

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[cancer] Dept of things you never thought you'd say -or- Things get worse

... day you find yourself saying, "Please, god, let it be metastatic colon cancer," because that would be the best outcome. Oncologist consult ... will be conducted on the tumor to determine if it is metastatic colon cancer or a novel lung cancer. (Chemo planning will ... a far more serious diagnosis, with a much poorer prognosis. Even metastatic colon cancer is damned spooky in terms of cure rates and ...

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Strange Bright Banners

From The Archdruid Report Wednesday, October 21, 2009 The transformation of money from a pragmatic measure of wealth to a metastatic abstraction that threatens to devour the economy of real wealth that created it – the theme of the last three posts here – has, as my readers have been quick to point out, political implications. The conventional wisdom these days ignores those implications; the ...

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