beach sunrise wrote:Research IV vitamin C. Also pure aloe.

Thank you. I was not really looking for treatments for Sepsis; my bacteremia goes away after the first two doses of antibiotics. I was looking for more of an insight into what could be causing it.

Hi all, I am having recurrent bacteremia/sepsis for the past two years. I had an HAI pump placed and roux en y hepaticojejunostomy done in 2019. The sepsis incidents started in 2020. At first my doctors thought it was due to intra hepatic bile duct dilation and placed a drain in me. After a few unev...

Rock_Robster wrote:It’s a fair question and I hope you get some answers; you might also want to try cross-posting here: https://www.uoaa.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=12

Rob

Thank you! I will do that.

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I have a transverse colon colostomy and wanted to try the irrigation option. Most of the times my stool is well formed and I empty 2-3 times day. All the online forums say it's not possible to irrigate transverse colon. I was wondering if anybody here has any experience with it.
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catstaff wrote:Have you looked into the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins?

Do you know who is good there when it comes to GI oncology?
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beach sunrise wrote:I have heard good things about Dr. John Marshall.

Thank you. His theory of maintenance chemo didn't work for me. I am trying to get a different opinion. Also last I heard, he is on a sabbatical.

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I am lookong for a good GI oncologist in Maryland who is good with liver mets. Any recommendations please?
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Sorry to hear they are back, Rgp. Are they the "same" mets; that is, in the same place? I am wondering whether treating the whole liver with the HAI pump might be more effective in the long term. Certainly something to look into. I was told it's the same mets in the same location. I am wo...

So my liver mets showed up again; after almost an year of hiding. I talked to two liver surgeons so far. Dr Fishbein with Georgetown and Dr Jin He with Hopkins. Both are saying the Mets are resectable. I am not sure who to go with. If any of you ever had an experience with either of these doctors, p...

I’ve been thinking along the same lines, if Keytruda fails me I may ask the Onc, if the cancer is going to take me away anyway, why suffer in the chemo. The again, I may chicken out and do it but be pissed off the whole time, and sick. I wouldn't call it chicken out. It's the fight. I know it's har...

ginabeewell wrote:I found this article which looked at the benefit of maintenance chemo for different types of patients:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5844763/

I guess this would suggest that as a complete responder, you may benefit from it?

Thanks. Yeah this looks like I may benefit from it.

Late to the thread. I had liver resection after 4 rounds of Folfox plus Vectibix and all that was found after the liver resection was a very small necrotic mass 4mm x 4mm. The surgical notes stated that they could not rule out a complete response to the chemo. This was at Mayo Rochester. They did w...

I think it's institutional preference too. In the DC area, Georgetown is big on maintenance while Hopkins says no to it. And then there is MSK with the pump. I really wish that all these fellas had a talk between them and share there knowledge, thoughts and experiences. Its hardly happening now. Eve...

Wow, it must be very difficult, hearing two very different opinions like that. I am wondering why Dr. Saltz at MSK had not recommended the HAI pump. MSK doesn't do the pump if there is no evidence of disease. By the time I met with Dr Saltz, my liver mets had disappeared from Chemo. I had clean liv...

Hi all I am looking for some thoughts/insights/experiences with maintenance chemo. My oncologist from DC area put me on maintenance chemo since I couldn't get a liver resection as my mets disappeared after neoadjuvent chemo. He said it's a no standard treatment and there is no evidence supporting it...