Hey Rock how you doing? Happy New Year! :!: :!: Personally I'm on cycle 8 of 12 FOLFOX Can't wait to get it done..pretty miserable experience Hope you're doing well. Nearly there mate! You’re doing well and soon enough this will all be a distant memory. I’m doing good thanks - back on the weekly FO...

Everyone doing OK out there? Hope this means you’ve all been distracted spending the holiday season with loved ones, or doing something you enjoy!

Rob

I feel like there a 2 groups of oncologists. One group is willing to be proactive with a positive Signatera result by initiating chemotherapy. Then, you have the other group who is unwilling to treat based solely on Signatera results but wants confirmation with positive CT scans. I agree with the d...

So, I completed 10 rounds of FOLFIRI. Chest CT was clear. Signatera was positive again. So, that's no bueno. My oncologist doesn't seem to think that more chemo right now will benefit me. So it's watch and wait for the cancer to come back. Oncologist seems to think that I will have regrowth of canc...

Happy holidays everyone!

And to those who celebrate it, Merry Christmas from Australia in 12 minutes…

Love having my virtual CRC family.

Cheers!
Rob (Rock_Robster)

. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/instance/10654928/bin/jamaoncol-e235098-g002.jpg Time From Surgery to Colorectal Cancer Recurrence by Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) Stage Vertical dashed lines represent median time from curative surgery to recurrence. Shaded areas represe...

To support, my oncologist was very clear that the recurrence % rates only apply from day 0 (first day of NED), and every year that passes without recurrence reduces the actual future recurrence risk (all else being equal of course). If you think about 5-year recurrence rates, what are the odds of so...

Are you talking about D2 vs D3? If so I’ve heard D3 (cholecalciferol) is better - I take 10,000 IU around 3-4 times a week.

Another idea if you don't mind paying a small amount -- Kamini Desai has an app (I think it might only be available in the Apple store - not sure) called IAM Yoga Nidra. It was recommended to me by the Director of a Mind~Body~Spirit program at my local cancer center, and I found it very helpful whe...

To help with practicalities, if you go see your GP they can write you a Mental Health Care Plan (MHCP) and a referral to a psychologist (you can choose, or they can suggest one). This part is free. The MHCP entitles you to 10 discounted therapy sessions per year (the discount is $93 off whatever the...

Hi Pagola, have you considered seeing a counsellor or therapist? I did during my treatment and they have been an enormous help. You’ve gone through quite a lot at a young age, and I think professional support would make a big difference.

Have you had a scope yet? Given the bowel is hard to image and bloods are imprecise, that would usually be the standard way of diagnosing a local recurrence. With this procedure they can also easily take biopsies and confirm in the lab a match with your existing tumour cells.

Yes a few times - they used to be very long (about 90 min), but they seem to have them down to about 40 min. now. You often don’t need to go fully into the machine - usually feet-first. They’ll put in an IV cannula, and place a large plastic pad firmly over your right abdomen after you lie flat on y...

Yeah, Australia isn’t quite as bad as the US thankfully. Here it’s only added by law to wheat flour to be used for bread making - unless it’s certified organic (in which case it may still be added by choice). But that does mean it can find its way into lots of other things like pasta etc too through...

rp1954 wrote:Yes. 5FU - folic acid is the original analysis.

Bugger, thanks for the quick response. Back to gluten free bread for me!