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Rectal Cancer Discussions

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Rectal cancer metastasized to ...
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My husband was diagnosed with rectal cancer stage 4 in 02/07.  After 3 surgeries (1 was a complete miss with big chunks of good lung tissues emoved bu...
1304/19/08 Message Rating
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Cetuximab
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A family member has been offered a clinical trial using cetuximab. Although he is diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer (met. to bone-M1) I wondered if anyon...
004/19/08 Message Rating
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anal cancer
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I am a 48 yo female recently diagnosed with anal cancer, stage 1. I had slight bleeding, which i followed up with a colonoscopy(for what I thought was a hemmorh...
1104/10/08 Message Rating
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PSA Test
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My dad is 72 y his psa test read today 4.26 ,he was treated by radio, chemo and surgical on 2007 from rectal cancer,please advice your comment urgent 
404/09/08 Message Rating
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Passing Pieces of Tumor?
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My husband was diagnosed on in Feb 2008 with stage IV rectal cancer with 6 liver mets and has completed 2 infusions of FOLOX + Avastin and is scheduled for this...
203/30/08 Message Rating
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Need to find a good surgeon. A...
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My friend is diagnosed rectal cancer. We heard that the Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the Sloan-Kettering Memorial Hospital in NYC were among the best i...
803/30/08 Message Rating
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need advice
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rectal cancer surgery two months ago followed by a hole in the intestine site with absesses, on TPN for over a month, now being introduced to food again, c...
203/28/08 Message Rating
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Brachytherapy
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My wife who is 35 with stage 3 rectal cancer from 2006 has had the first reoccurence in Jan 08, after xeloda and 28 radiation therapy the radiation oncologist w...
803/26/08 Message Rating
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bleed a lot
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my dad diagnosed with rectal cancer for a month now, stage III. he will undergo radiation and chem next Monday, then surgery later. Yesterday my dad bleed 9-10 ...
103/21/08 Message Rating
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Do you think screening should ...
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I'm writing in response to an article from this site, plus numerous articles I've read recently about improving screening for colorectal cancer.  T...
203/20/08 Message Rating
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Walgreens & CRC Awareness Mont...
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The other day, a friend of mine told me that she had seen some brochures back by the pharmacy counter in your local Walgreens (Orlando, FL-Hi Nancy!). Well, tod...
003/18/08 Message Rating
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advice needed!!
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I wish I had found this website months ago!  I was diagnosed with rectal cancer in 7/07.  I had radiation and chemo and a transanal excision.  Th...
1203/17/08 Message Rating
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hope someone can help me with ...
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I had surgery for rectal cancer Jan22 stage 1. I left the hospital after 8 days. I did not do well, pain, difficulty eating, having a BM. New CAT scan showed a ...
003/17/08 Message Rating
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Places rectal cancer can sprea...
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Hi,I'm a newbe, to this board anyway. My husband was dx with rectal cancer March 06. The first diagnosis was stage 4. After the surgery and chemo (flofox) a...
903/14/08 Message Rating
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Urgent advise needed
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My dad has been diagnosed with rectal cancel stage 1 (3cm from anus), CT scan and MRI showed no other areas affected but the surgeon mentione that since the tum...
903/12/08 Message Rating
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New to boards....just started ...
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Hi everyone,I just started chemo and radiation today for Stage II rectal cancer.  I am 50 years old and have a wonderful husband who has been my ...
1703/03/08 Message Rating
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colonic j pouch
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In May I will have my temporary ileostomy "taken down" and begin adapting to my colonic j pouch.  I've read a few posts related to difficulti...
203/03/08 Message Rating
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Recto anal canal with liver me...
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I am 66 years old man have gone dharamshila cancer hospital and research centar on 22.08.07 with complaints of bleeding per rectum while passing stools for 3 m...
103/03/08 Message Rating
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New Diagnosis: Aggressive Stag...
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Hi,My husband is 45 and has been told that he likely has Stage IV rectal cancer with mets to the liver.  We have five children.  We found out when he ...
502/28/08 Message Rating
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A not so good best case scenar...
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My husband who was diagnosed with metastatic rectal cancer in September last year, has been struggling with a small bowel obstruction for about 7 weeks now (has...
502/23/08 Message Rating
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Medtronics morphine pump
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Hello, My friend Paul is about to undergo testing to see if he would be a good candidate to be fitted for the Medtronics morphine pump.(He has tremendous lower ...
102/21/08 Message Rating
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ultra low AR
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Hi Everybody,First of all i'd like to thank all the good people on here for sharing their details - it really does help to know your not the only one. I'...
302/19/08 Message Rating
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women/unusual pap
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I was diag. w/ stage 3 rectal cancer Jan 07 had surgery, they had to go to the vaginal wall to get clear margins.  I had chemo and radiation.  While h...
202/16/08 Message Rating
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Crippling effects of rectal an...
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My friend underwent a round of radiation in January -- to no effect. (No good effect, that is)He is in increasingly severe pain of the lower back and rectal are...
302/13/08 Message Rating
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xeloda
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How soon after starting treatments with Xeloda & radiation for a residual  rectal tumor did your side effects begin ??
1302/05/08 Message Rating
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