Latest Other Tests discussions http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/cancer-diagnosis/other-tests/1,0,124,97.htm Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ I was informed that I have a H.Pylori bacteria and after research all I could get out of te information given was that it's a stomach bateria/virus. I was told by a friend that happens to be a nurse that its a type of cancer. Is it true? Where can I research more about H.Pylori? Thank you.-Wendy http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,18299,0.htm Wendy C. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT hi..i've been to a dermatologist because of my excessive hair loss..i had t3,t4,tsh lab test to see if i have hypothyroidism because i experience almost all of its symptoms, including, constipation, sleepiness, hair loss, fatigue and decrease of concentration.. but the result shows my thyroid is normal..my dermatologist said i look pale..maybe i am anemic..so she told me to take ferrous sulfate and multivitamins also for my hair.. and advised me to have a cbc test..last monday i had my first day of menstruation. i felt dizzy..my officemate said that maybe i am anemic..yesterday i had my cbc..this is the result... hemoglobin      11.9                       from    12- 14 rangehematocrit        .40                                   .36 - .40erythrocyte       4.32                                  4.0 - 4.5leukocyte         6.4                                    5 - 10 lymphocyte       45                                      22 - 40%monocyte          3                                        4 - 8%eosinophil          1                                        1- 4% can you give me some idea with what's wrong from me? do i have a serious disease? thank you...  http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,17016,0.htm humanspider Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT Please help ASAP.  My niece is in Hosp in Baltimore all her blood levels are down.  She just had Mother Of All Surgeries and HIPEC chemo.  How can her levels  increase other than transfusions.  Does anyone have a doctor recommendation? Please help.  She is 30 years old and fighting appendix cancer/signet cell ring. http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,16586,0.htm Gemini2 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT I am to have a PFT today in order to determine how well my lungs function overall. THEN if I do well enough, I need to have a lobectomy for my right lower lobe's cancer. Does anyone know what numbers I would need to "pass" this PFT? Prayers are welcome. http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,14663,0.htm Drmom Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT Has anyone been diagnosed with MGUS?  I have alot of questions and have had a hard time finding answers.Cindy http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,12479,0.htm Cindy d Mon, 28 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT Im only 18 years old and i just got diagnosed with HPV. My yearly pap came back abnormal, i was told that i had mild dysplasia, i went and had the colposcopy done and then i found out that the dysplasia went from mild to moderate. Thats when my Gyn told me that i had HPV. I just have a couple Questions for anyone that has had the procedure done.1 Since im not good with procedures, will they let my husband come in with me to comfort me? 2 Is it possible for them to put me to sleep for the procedure or put me in a hospital for the procedure?  http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,11945,0.htm Tooldforme Wed, 09 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT Hi my name is carrrie and I have to go have a leep done on may 9th. and Im very scared. I have never been put to sleep and I hate needles. Anyway Im scared I want wake up and scared to have it done for the pain and stuff. I guess my question is for the ones that have been put to sleep to have it done are, Does the Iv hurt, Do they have to use the tube down your throat, and how much pain will I have after the procedure???? I have a lot of concerns and questions that most people cant answer unless they have done it. But anyway any thang that you can tell me about it can help me. Thank you http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,11647,0.htm Fastbullet10 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT I was just asking to see if there is a up date on Jak2. And to see if there is a drug out there yet for it. Thanks Terri http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,10930,0.htm Terrilynn Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Does anyone know if they have found a way to turn off the on switch that is related to jak2? Also is there a new drug out there for it. Thanks. Terri http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,10884,0.htm Terrilynn Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Im still having all the symptoms of a lymphoma(loss of appetite,over50lbs lost in the last 6 months,abdominal pain, itchiness, paleness, weakness,night sweats ect.) and an elarged cluster of lymphnodes in my abdomen was noted on my CT but  I have yet to see a pediatric oncologist (im still 15)that takes our insurance for bone marrow biopsy and lymphnode biopsy...but i was  curious  to see that  on my CBC that my white blood count was circled and it was 9.8 ...my red was 4.5 which seemed in range...but within the components of that  i had low lymphocytes,low eosinophils,high neutrophils,and the monocytes and basophils seemed to be in the middle of the  range...does that indicate anything? also i had a high calcium level and high ketones...does that suggesting anything towards the suspiscion of  a lymphoma or maybe another blood cancer such as myeloma or something? http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,10112,0.htm Diaboliclysweet Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT my name is sarah and im 23 ...... im going in for a leep today........ ahhhhh im so scared....im really sensitive........ i broke down just during the colpo............... i know its going to be worse than i can possibly imagine........................................... http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,7322,0.htm Siimplesarah........... Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT My husband has a dr's appt. 9-25-06 to check his cbc. Transalate:cbc?? What should i be looking for?? What should it read?? He was diagosed with 6 brain tumors on 9-17-06 and is taking radiation treatments for the next 3 weeks. Thanks lou http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,6968,0.htm Nebraska Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT Researchers have seen that whether a tumor was a breast tumor, prostate tumor, lung tumor or colon tumor, it didn't correlate to how the cancers interacted with standard anticancer drugs. Their findings suggest that traditional cancer treatments, which have established different drug regimens for lung, prostate or ovarian cancer, for example, should be replaced with therapies that use drugs deemed to be of highest benefit based on the tumor's pharmacologic profile. Treatment choice would be determined by how each patient's tumor reacts to anticancer drugs, regardless of the tumor's anatomical origin. The drug effect is independent of where the tumor came from in the body. Under current treatment selection methods virtually no chemotherapeutic drug has been successful in more than 50 percent of patients with advanced cancer. But instead of considering a drug that works only ten percent of the time a failure, it would be better to consider such a drug effective for one in ten tumors and to search for the agents among the current arsenal of chemotherapeutic drugs that will work for the rest. Having a good tumor-drug match not only would improve survival rates, it would be cost-effective, and the high cost of the newer cancer therapies reinforces the necessity of choosing the right therapy the first time around. The introduction of new "targeted" drugs has not been accompanied by specific predictive tests allowing for a rational and economical use of the drugs. Given the technical and conceptual advantages of Cell Culture Drug Resistance Tests (CCDRTs) together with their performance and the modest efficicay of therapy prediction on analysis of genome expression, there is reason for a renewal in the interest for CCDRTs for optimized use of medical treatment of malignant disease. Clinical study results published at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) show that a new laboratory test, called EGFRx (TM), has accurately identified patients who would benefit from treatment with the molecularly-targeted anti-cancer therapies. The finding is important because the EGFRx (TM) test, which can also be applied to many emerging targeted cancer drugs, could help solve the growing problem of knowing which patients should receive costly, new treatments that can have harmful side-effects and which work for some but not all cancer patients who receive them. The test can discriminate between the activity of different targeted drugs and identify situations in which it is advantageous to combine the targeted drugs with other types of cancer drugs. The new test relies upon what is called "Whole Cell Profiling" in which living tumor cells are removed from an individual cancer patient and exposed in the laboratory to the new drugs. A variety of metabolic and apoptotic measurements are then used to determine if a specific drug was successful at killing the patient's cancer cells. The whole cell profiling method differs from other tests in that it assesses the activity of a drug upon combined effect of all cellular processes, using combined metabolic and morphologic endpoints. Other tests, such as those which identify DNA or RNA sequences or expression of individual proteins often examine only one component of a much larger, interactive process. The whole cell profiling method makes the statistically significant association between prospectively reported test results and patient survival. Using the EGFRx (TM) assay and the whole cell profiling method, can correlate test results which are obtained in the lab and reported to physicians prior to patient treatment, with significantly longer or shorter overall patient survival depending upon whether the drug was found to be effective or ineffective at killing the patient's tumor cells in the laboratory. Over the past few years, researchers have put enormous efforts into genetic profiling as a way of predicting patient response to targeted therapies. However, no gene-based test has been described that can discriminate differing levels of anti-tumor activity occurring among different targeted therapy drugs. Nor can an available gene-based test identify situations in which it is advantageous to combine a targeted drug with other types of cancer drugs. So far, only whole cell profiling has demonstrated this critical ability. Not only is this an important predictive test that is available "today," but it is also a unique tool that can help to identify newer and better drugs, evaluate promising drug combinations, and serve as a "gold standard" correlative model with which to develop new DNA, RNA, and protein-based tests that better predict for drug activity. These "targeting" drugs are expensive, costing patients and insurance carriers $5,000 to $7,000 or more per month of treatment. Patients, physicians, insurance carriers, and the FDA are all calling for the discovery of predictive tests that allow for rational and cost-effective use of these drugs. The whole cell profiling approach, holds the key to solving some of the problems confronting a healthcare system that is seeking ways to best allocate available resources while accomplishing the critical task of matching individual patients with the treatments most likely to benefit them. Genomic testing is not the answer, without cell culture analysis. In developing a program to discover gene expression microarrays, which predict for responsiveness to drug therapy, the way to identify informative gene expression patterns is to have a gold standard and that cell culture assays are by far the most powerful, efficient, useful gold standard to have. The assay is the only assay that involves direct visualization of the cancer cells at endpoint. This allows for accurate assessment of drug activity, discriminates tumor from non-tumor cells, and provides a permanent archival record, which improves quality, serves as control, and assesses dose response in vitro (includes newly-emergent drug combinations). http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,6955,0.htm Gdpawel Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT can someone help me understand what testing this is? http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,6074,0.htm Spindarella006 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT I sent a message last night to everyone that has the same problem and wants to discuss it with me, because I am the same. the email is --- Message edited by CancerCompass staff: for personal protection, email address removed. Please review CancerCompass Member Guidelines at http://www.cancercompass.com/common/guidelines.html ---- if you like to contact me. monsef ( mark ) http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,5836,0.htm Monsef Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT I had a lumpectomy on Oct 3, 2005. No Cancer at this time but I do have A.D.H. (atypical ductal hyperplasia). I noticed the "cord" about 2 weeks after surgery, it went from my incision down to my belly button. I was having chest wall pains at this time also. Is this common? Also, I had stomach pressure over the area where the cord was, an EGD shows I have a haital hernia. Is it possible that the lumpectomy being removed from beneith the chest wall could have aggrivated an existing hiatal hernia? I'm really tired of hurting in the surgical area and it almost makes me feel like the lumpectomy was not worth it. I feel depressed a lot and not at all like a wife should be. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you! http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,3709,0.htm Pavielle Sat, 10 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT It has just recently come to my attention that doctors will stop using PSA rates to determine early stage prostate cancer as it is not as reliable as biopsy. They did not say if it still worked for late stage cancer. Like to know about this. http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,1380,0.htm Ewelldone Tue, 09 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT