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Can't Eat, Everything Tastes B...
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Hi All I am looking for answers for my father. A year ago he found out he had lung cancer, he under went chemo and radiation things looked good. Then a bra...
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Radiation?
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Hi-- My mom (67yrs old) has Stage 3 RCC (T3, N1, MX). She had 1 kidney removed on Feb 3rd. Her recovery from surgery has been amazing--the doctors can't be...
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Whipple
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I am recovering from the Whipple procedure now. My surgery was done in October 2005 and took 12 hours to complete. Two days after surgery my left lung colapse...
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Best Treatment Centers For Rad...
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I have just been diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma with a primary site in the remnant of a tonsil removed as a kid. The back of the tongue and neck will a...
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Weakness & Fatigue After Temod...
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Thank you to all of you wonderful people who post on this supportive message board. My dad had tumor resection on Aug. 29. We found out it was GBM IV on Sept....
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Less Than Radical Removal
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message to Pat k. Proton beam is not radiation... Photon is radiation. Photons have no measurable mass and penetrate all tissue before and after the tumor. Pr...
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Radiation Side Effects
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Hello to all. I finally started with the radiation therapy. Had 4 so far. I am also on daily Casodex. No side effects from Casodex but after my 3rd radiatio...
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Radiation With Face Mask
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My wife has to undergo 6 weeks of radiation to her sinuses. 5 days a week. They made a face mask for her. She freaked out at one of the simulations and had t...
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Therasphere Treatment
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Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone has had Therasphere treatment for metastatic colon cancer to the liver? Michelle K.
207/19/05 Message Rating
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Swift After Facial Radiation H...
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All~ I have a write up and photos on my site of me before, during and after radiation (Aug '05, then June 23, 2005 then July 14, 2005) - the site has a restr...
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Body Radiotherapy
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I'd like to learn more about stereotactic body radiotherapy (technologies). Any one?
002/15/05 Message Rating
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Lumpectomy Abscess After Radia...
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I received a diagnosis of non-invasive DCIS in June 2004. In July I had a lumpectomy and the two sentinal nodes removed neither of which had any signs of cancer...
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Radiation Enteritis
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Hi. I am a survivor of cancer surgery and 25 pelvic radiation treatments. I thought that I had made it with flying colors, but about 6 weeks after my final trea...
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Radiation Pros and Cons
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I was diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in right breast in March 2004. Had modified radical mastectomy in April 2004... Hormone receptive with four out of twelve...
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Treatment
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I have had a lumpectomy and the cancer did not spread to the lymph nodes or out side of the lump that was less than one centimeter. Do I have to have radation a...
307/12/04 Message Rating
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Whole Brain Radiation Therapy
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The initial approach to using radiation postoperatively to treat brain metastases, used to be whole brain radiation, but this was abandoned because of the subst...
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Hbo Therapy For Radiation-indu...
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The diagnosis of radiation-induced necrosis is difficult to confirm. Many patients have a mixture of tumor and radiation necrosis and a biopsy may be necessary ...
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What is Ipt, Chemo Infused Wit...
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My father has Esophageal Cancer. 5 ysrs ago we had it beat after he went through 8wks of microwave and low dose radiation treatment. Now it is back. He went th...
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Radiation treatment
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Are there any studies that compare IMRT and proton radiation treatment?
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Radiation survivor stories of ...
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I have had removed a cancerous mass next to my left parotid gland and I have been advised to have six weeks of radiation. This treatment would be five days a w...
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Radiation treatments
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I recently had a lumpectomy. The doctors are telling me that I must have 6 weeks of radiation, even though they found no other cancer in my lymph nodes or in m...
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Radiation Treatments
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Hi Everyone, just letting you know I'm on my ninth day of radiation, so far I have lost my taste of any food so I will go back to my feeding tube. Have started ...
505/26/03 Message Rating
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HDR treatment for prostate can...
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Has anyone had HDR radiation treatment for prostate cancer? Would appreciate any input...thanks. Bill
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Radiation
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My surgeon and oncologist recommended chemo, radiation and 5 years of hormonal therapy. I was done with chemo 2 months ago and radiation is next, but I decided ...
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Radiation
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I was diagnosed last August. After a successful lumpectomy, I decided against radiation even though doctors at Sloan Kettering advised it. I have since heard ...
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