Hi from New Zealand, Rob My experience may be out of date now but when I had this surgery back in January 2014 I was told that the surgery is only considered feasible when there is no disease except for in the lungs. It doesn't matter if the nodules are causing symptoms so long as they are all insid...
Congratulations on your successful surgery and arrival home, that's great you got through it all. I hope that it will encourage you that I had my last lung laser surgery in August 2014 and have been NED ever since. Surgery was followed by ADAPT and all my scans have been clear so I was discharged fr...
I haven’t posted here much recently but today I am happy to happy dance share that my 12 year journey with metastatic bowel cancer has finally ended – and with a happy ending . After multiple surgeries, radiation, over 100 chemo cycles my oncologist (who is head of Oncology in my city) said last wee...
Roadrunner - I think the hospital charged about 25,000 Euros in total for all medical costs, fully catered 2 week stay in private room for me plus a second room for my companion. Probably very cheap compared to US medical but expensive for New Zealanders used to free healthcare. I hope that you won'...
I had the lung laser surgery 3 times in 2014 to remove multiple mets. The location of the mets doesn't seem to rule out surgery, I had one about a cm from my heart and it was successfuly removed which Dr Ladas said could not have been done with traditional surgery. Up to 100 mets can be removed from...
I had radiation damage after rectal cancer treatment in 2011 as my pelvic bones started to crumble in 2016. Multiple fractures in my sacrum shown on CT and I couldn't sit or stand without pain and it got worse. My research indicated that HBOT could cure it so I asked my onc to refer me. We have a go...
I had my reconnection with a j pouch 7 years ago and for most of that time I have had digestion issues, diarrhoea, constipation, stomach cramps, vomiting. I have gradually eliminated foods that irritate and ended up with a list of things I cut out - No fruit except a few berries and limited amount o...
Not quite the same but I have been taking xeloda plus celecoxib (avastin isn't funded here in New Zealand) for over 4 years, currently on round 70 and still NED. I have minimal side effects, some fatigue, sensitive hands (which may be from oxi 7 years ago) and my oncologist plans for me to stay on t...