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Renal Cell Cancer Discussions

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Nexavar
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Hi everyone!My father has been on Nexavar 400mg  (4 pills a day since Sept 07)So Far stable with mutiple mets including bone intrusion on his rib. He ...
005/12/08 Message Rating
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Post Surgery redness?
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Hello out there!  I was just wondering how many of you experienced a sudden redness within the incision area?  My mom had a partial nephrectomy about ...
205/11/08 Message Rating
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Torisel
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Has anyone seen positive results of putting their renal kidney cancer in remission as a result of using Torisel?Your input would be appreciated.
105/08/08 Message Rating
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Fluid around the Lungs
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Hi I am new to this message board. My Dad has Just been Dx with renal cell cancer with Met to the lungs. We are doing all the diagnostic tests this week. My que...
405/06/08 Message Rating
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Torisel
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Has anyone seen any positve results of Torisel?
205/05/08 Message Rating
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Great News
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After a little over a year of battling stage 4 RCC to the lungs,my recent CT scan showed no sign of cancer. I have been on 25 mg. of sutent since April 2007 aft...
505/04/08 Message Rating
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Torisel
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My mom's doctor wants her to take 20 treatments of Torisel before checking to see if it is even helping.  Is this normal?  He's not very infor...
105/04/08 Message Rating
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Sutent
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My brother Johnny, age 60, shed this earthly vessel and lives on, March 10, 2008, at 1:45 a.m. and I was there beside him.  He lost the use of his leg...
205/03/08 Message Rating
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Torisel aka Temsirolimus
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Hi Everyone,Just found the website and realise that some of you might like to know that at 80 my Mum has just completed 12 weeks of Torisel at 25mg.  We ar...
305/02/08 Message Rating
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blood pressure
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Hi my husband is on his twelveth day of taking sutent, and so far all has been really good, except a few side effects which he has accepted.However yesterday an...
705/01/08 Message Rating
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Over Wieght /Obese and RCC
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Hi My question – for the past year I read a number of publications concerning RCC and over weight /obese individuals. According to those publications, mai...
305/01/08 Message Rating
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new to board
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Hi all,I have just been diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma.  Any information you can give me would be great.  The Dr told me I would have a open part...
504/27/08 Message Rating
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Nexavar & Rad-001
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My brother was put on both Nexavar 2 pills once a day, and Rad-001 7 pills once a week.Started this treatment today. He has renal cell cancer. He had ...
404/18/08 Message Rating
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swollen lymph nodes in stomach
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I have been on stutent for 11 months and have been told I am stable and many of my tumors are smaller and since I have bone mets, some of the bone is growing ba...
004/17/08 Message Rating
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Diet is an alternative treatme...
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Before you discount the idea as hooky, please read about the success my husband, 61, has had in treating his Stage IV RCC (clear cell) with a raw vegan no-fruit...
704/16/08 Message Rating
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when do I reveiw my metastasis...
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I am suffering from renel cell carcinoma with 5-6 sub cms pulmonery noudles in lungs. I underwent left neprectomy in April 07 and was on interferon alpfa 2 b ti...
404/15/08 Rated by 1 members
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Bad report
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My husband has been on Sutent. He went for scans yesterday and the spot on his lung had doubled. He also has some suspicious spots on his brain. We are going ba...
004/11/08 Message Rating
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Nephrectomy
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Has anyone had a bilateral nephrectomy? I'd like to know how you cope from day to day and what do you have to do as far as dialysis? I would appreciate any ...
104/10/08 Message Rating
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Torisel
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H everyone,  can anyone on Torisel help me out? How it's given, how long, etc. Don't need to see the side effects. If I see them again I wikk have ...
904/09/08 Message Rating
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Avastin /Zatima/stem cell
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Has anyone used or been treated with this drug? Also has anyone been involved in using stem cells. If you can answer ASAP it would be apprecited as some very ne...
004/07/08 Message Rating
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operation vs medication questi...
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When taking oral meds for RCC, do you need to stop them for an operation?  My doc is telling me I will need to be off my meds (Nexavar) for 2 or more weeks...
104/07/08 Message Rating
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For Newbies wiht RCC
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Posted this on another site but think it needs to be seen even if I did write it myself-After reading this board and the kca.org board for more than a year, I h...
304/04/08 Message Rating
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welts on stomach
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has anyone experienced welts in the abdominal area while being treated for renal and bone cancer? The dermatoligist we went to said they could be cancer An...
004/03/08 Message Rating
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Moms Cancer
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Hi, I have posted one other time on this board about my mom. She was diagnosed last March with RCC. Original kidney cancer was 8 years ago and they removed the ...
303/31/08 Message Rating
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inoperable left kidney cancer
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Hello EveryoneMy Dad(55yrs.) was diagnosed with stage4 renal cell cancer a year ago. Started Nexavar the first month and so far it hasn't spread or gotten a...
1203/20/08 Message Rating
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