GrouseMan, Thank You So Much for staying here!!! I do understand your need to speak up. We are many who wish things had started different. Kind regards /LPL (I need to change my signature, my husband is not NED now, he is beeing treated and checked regarding small mets in lungs. Probably been there ...
I have a close friend that tested positive for the cologuard test. She does not like doctors and was to scared to go for a colonoscopy. Her GP finally got her to take the Cologuard test, which came back positive. Now she is in a panic and is scheduled for a colonoscopy on July 2nd. The doctor said ...
Dear CRguy, Thank you for The Folfox Prison Blues!! & the ‘imagine’ an episode of Star Wars - I wish hubby had read all the Star Wars books our daughter had (I did make a great queen Amidala costume for the new years party 2000 - I hope that counts on the scale...)
I had a talk with my cancer yesterday. Told it that it that as much as I have grown to appreciate the preciousness of life in the past six months, it no longer sparks joy. I thanked it sent it away. Kidding aside, wonder what others' experience with visualizing the disease leaving your body -- vapo...
Well, as I noted in the thread about insurance companies and scans, they wouldn't let me have an MRI, so I had a "triphasic" CT scan instead. This is supposed to do a better job of imaging the liver. Apparently the dye is taken up in the arterial system and portal veins at different times...
teacher2017 wrote:All clear!!!! All clear!!! BOOYAH!!! Woop Woop! So happy! I’m so sick of worrying! Now for a colonoscopy...going to try and live my life. I will always keep you posted. And I wish you all NED!!!!
inorganic8 wrote: ... I need to vent a little: ... Wow - having been confronted with so many idiots :evil: in two days - I totally understand your reaction!!! I hope you have good support from relatives - I read about others who are having Big problems with for example in-laws. Sending strengthenin...
LPL - I have probably mentioned this before but people with KRAS G13D mutations are often relegated to the NO EGFr inhibitor treatment group along with all the other KRAS mutations. This is a biased position by many oncologist in that they can't wrap their head around the fact that G13D patients do...
The Kras G12C mutation occurs in about 7.9 % of colon Cancer patients tumors. So granted this isn't perhaps a great therapeutic discovery for colon cancer. However it seems that a good (150nM IC50) inhibitor - ARS-1620 is an atropisomeric one selective for KRASG12C a mutant form of the guanosine tr...