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  • Cptmac has replied to a post on the message board

    Have you looked here?  http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/search Look through it with your doctor and see what they think. I went to a top cancer hospital that I found here http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/rankings/cancer Signed up for a Stage II clinical trial and for this Stage IV given six months to live but told I could die at any minute, it made all the difference in the world. 

    August 24 at 2:15 AM view post
    • Cptmac has replied to a post on the message board

      I was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer on July 22, 2004.  I was given 6 months to live but told that I could die at any moment.  I knew that those doctors were not the right ones for me.  I found the right ones at a NCI rated hospital, and for me, that made all the difference in the world.  I have been cancer free since September 4, 2004.  Hope this gives you hope. 

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      • Cptmac has replied to a post on the message board

        I don't come on here much anymore, so my apologies to everyone for the late reply, I went to the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.  My oncologist was Dr. Edward Greeno.  I was on a Stage II clinical trial.  I had my colon removed first, then 4 weeks later I had my entire right lobe of liver removed.  These surgeries also removed 14ish lymph nodes.  I had Irinotecan as my systemic chemo...

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