Ten years ago, I called this place home. Ten years ago, a GI doc told me I had cancer and that very night, I found this place. I spent hours lurking and scouring threads and information here from my hospital bed that night, looking for information and stories. And found them I did. Weeks went by bef...
Greetings everyone, long time no talk. I'm back to make good on a promise I made six years ago to a 29 year old scared out of his mind having recently heard those fateful words. This was one of the first places I came on the old interwebs sitting in the hospital, waiting alone with my trusty laptop ...
Yeah there's no specific answer for this. As long as the major vessels are not removed from a lobe, it can and will grow back. So if your surgeries are smaller wedge resections, they can be repeated many many times.
Bro it's crazy here! My house specifically has escaped most of the pain. I'd say I have somewhere between 1-2 feet. There are a few townships just south and east of the city that set the national (including Alaska) all time record for 24 hour snowfall at 76"! Wrap your head around that for a mi...
Thanks for all your kind words guys. Turns out there were many days in a row of celebration. I'm so glad I was able to help some of you out on your own journey.
Five years ago today (Friday the 13th no less) I woke up groggy from my first ever colonoscopy at the young age of 29 and heard those fateful words. Following surgery I learned initial testing was insufficient and what we thought was easily treatable colon cancer became a nearly lethal Stage IV diag...
Gotta wait for pathology for sure. 2cm is medium or medium-large in my non-doctor book. Who knows if it's trouble or not? The pathologist. Gotta wait for that. The number of polyps is somewhat concerning. Normally that would just shorten your time till your next scope. But the flat polyp sort of sho...
An addition. Here's the thread I started following my procedure. Sorry its long . Re-reading it, I had forgotten how much that NG tube made me want to stab someone by the end.
Ray's journal is pretty excellent. HIPEC is often referred to as mother of all surgeries around here as it's intense. They probably average 10 hours for it. The rate of non life-threatening complications is HIGH and it's not be underestimated. But it CAN offer folks a shot at long term remission and...
EPIC isn't used as often as HIPEC for cases like this, but some folks do it. I know it's practiced at MSKCC and is as you describe. That's about all I know though
Does anyone now exactly How dangerous CT scans are? Is there a fear they'll cause new cancer at some stage in the future, or is it a fear of weakening the body *now*? My oncologist is using over-exposure to radiation as a reason to only scan me once a year. I'm honestly more concerned about colon c...
The availability of readers is what determines when the results (report) is available. At my center, if I am scanned early in the morning, the report will be done before the end of the day. The later the scan, the later the report. But if your new scan place does not have full time readers, it is h...