We are pretty familiar with MN and go there multiple times per year. Back in July for a soccer tournament in Minni. I like MN. People are so nice they could be Canadian.

Up 61 in Thunder Bay. Will be in Duluth next week.

Wait for the port. Pretty isolated where I am and the only Dr. That does it was on holidays last week. Welcome to Canada Eh

I hope you don't mind but I would like to join your thread and contribute my experiences throughout chemo which I will be starting next week. To start off, today I had my port installed. I think it will be well worth the slight wait to get it. Pretty minor procedure that they did with only local ana...

Has anyone tried to exercise, such as biking, during treatments?

I get my port tomorrow and will be starting my FOLFOX treatments on Tuesday. We'll have to compare notes.

Good luck and take care.

I think natural whole foods is the way to go staying away from processed foods. Cancer is so complex I don't believe it is one thing that causes it but rather a combination of exposures over time that contribute. Like her, i will be starting chemo (ie. FOLFOX) soon and am paranoid of eating refined ...

grew up in a house with secondhand smoke for 22 years. ate oatmeal and toast for breakfast for most of my life since the 3rd grade. added honey and cinnamon a few years ago. bing drank in college. drink about 2 drinks/beers per week since then. i exercised a lot running since 1989 and recently compl...

Thanks everyone. You know how your mind wanders when you have time to think.

Updated my signature after my oncology appt. yesturday. Anxious to get started with chemo and get done so I can get back to the business of my normal life.

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CC T3b Dx and will be starting FOLFOX in a few weeks since right hemi on 04/15/16 Spoke with onc doc today and he mentioned that cancer may be cause by a series of several factors influencing mutations such as environment, nutrition, etc Also said that for recovery I will have to ensure exercise and...

Hello, I know one can never really know what caused your cancer but I was wondering what people thought may have caused their cancer? I was recently diagnosed with T3N1M0 and am awaiting possible chemo therapy after having a right hemicolectomy on April 15th. Looking back I would think that mine may...