Well I got the histology from my GP and I'm looking for a bum to kick. Or at least a gastroenteroligist who proofreads his Procedure Report. Or a typist who switches off spell-check. I had 2 lipomas . Not lymphomas. There will be a small celebration in the household this evening. I'm still NED. You ...

No news for me yet. I've stopped googling "lymphoma in the colon". Until I see the path results it's all wild speculation. Chrissie started her 27th cycle of chemo yesterday. We had an interesting meeting with our Oncologist today . Her CEA has come down a little and her LDH is completely ...

From what I have read treatment most likely will be resection and radiation. The prognosis is good.
The complication is that my partner has Stage IV mCRC ( unresectable) and I'm the "caregiver", which is almost obscene but them's the breaks.

Well it was a good run. Almost 9 years. Yesterday I had a colonoscopy which wasn't very good. Apart from some lymph nodes there are 2 lymphomas in the colon. Not rare but not that common. I can't say that I have ever seen any posts with lymphomas in the colon on the forum. I've scheduled an appointm...

I have a colonoscopy next Wednesday.
Because I'm diabetic and have impaired kidney function ( Folfox will knock about 20% off kidney function anyway), it's old school Moviprep . It's easier on the kidneys. As long as it is refrigerated I don't have a problem.

Hello Suzanne Thanks for all the info. Tomorrow my SO will have completed her 26th cycle of Folfox + Avastin. That makes it 21 cycles of Oxaliplatin and 23 of Avastin. Her oncologist suggested yesterday that there may only be another 2 cycles of Oxi in her . He would then switch over to Irinotecan. ...

I found those high CEA numbers believable. My SO was 18,000 at diagnosis. After 9 rounds it was 2400 when the onc. advised an Oxi break due to neuropathy. After 10 weeks without Oxi it had climbed to 8000. It is now steady at 14000. In that period of rise in CEA there has been no change in tumour si...

8 years ago I completed 12 rounds of Oxi. Neuropathy commenced after 10 but I did the next 2 anyway. Neuropathy proceeded to worsen for about 2 months afterwards , after which it slowly tapered off a bit, but it's still there. But then so am I. April 1 2014 my SO commenced Folfox 6 + Avastin. As of ...

I made no changes to my diet or lifestyle. However in 2011 I was diagnosed T2 Diabetic. That was my wake-up call. That is when I made significant changes to both. Without sounding smug, I have kept my bg levels at almost non-diabetic levels for 4 years. I've discussed this my onc. and the changes I ...

I would seriously question abandoning Oxaliplatin. If you already have neuropathy it is unlikely to improve much. If the experience of my SO is anything to go by, the neuropathy may plateau. She has now had 18 rounds of Oxi.She had bad reactions after the 14th and 15th rounds but the last 3 rounds h...

Beware of the units. US and the Continent use mg/dL , UK and Aus use mmo/L. the threshold for T2 diabetes is fbg 126/7. respectively. In terms of risk for recurrence the jury is out though current thinking is that the glucose by itself may not be as important as the free insulin that is generated by...

Four rounds of Oxi isn't really a lot but we all have different responses. My SO has now completed 15 rounds of Oxi. She had Oxi for 9 cycles ( when PN kicked in, but which hasn't really worsened), had a break for 5 cycles and until this week another 6 cycles. The Oxi was very effective. The last 2 ...

In 2007 I did the standard 12 cycles of Oxi.I had the usual side effects which longterm are not debilitating. My SO has now done 20 rounds of folfox + Avastin, 15 with Oxi and18 with Avastin ( the Avastin was discontinued after an appendicetomy). After the last two cycles she has suffered chills and...

After a couple of rounds of chemo I asked for a reduction in dosage of dex. When my SO started chemo she had a pre-med of dex and Emend with Kytril afterwards. Seemed to work OK. After the 6th round some bright spark decided to check her bg levels after dex and saline drip. She read at 16.5. I'm the...

Never had a melanoma but I'm an old hand at the dermatologists and plastic surgeon for removal of SCCs, BCCs, IECs and actinic keratosis stretching back 30 years. Resisted Efudix for a long time but finally persuaded to give it a go by my P.S. His advice , which you were never given, was not to do y...