Marineguy21

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• Marineguy21 has replied to a post on the message board

  Hope123, First of all I will def be praying for you, and I feel for you not having anyone, I don't know what my wife would do without me. We have a hard enough time as it is. Secondly, get a new oncologist. If he's not giving you hope, then he is a useless doctor. My wife has mets throughout her entire body, lungs, spine, adrenal gland, liver, and has spread up the lymphnodes all the way to the neck. Our...

  June 21 at 7:07 PM view post

• Marineguy21 has replied to a post on the message board

  Hey, just to answer a few questions, Kidney and adrenal gland could be removed but at this point it is do dangerous and we decided against it. The cancer is so progressive and had spread to close to her brain that if we back of of the max doses of chemo long enough for us to have surgery then we risk it spreading to the brain or other locations. At this point since the Sutent is doing its job there is no reas...

  June 21 at 6:53 PM view post

• Marineguy21 has created a new message board discussion

  Hi Everyone, I was just hoping to vent our story and hoping to get some supportive words. My wife, (Charli), was diagnosed with stage 4 clear cell renal cell carcinoma in December 2011. With a 9 cm mass in her kidney, 7 cm mass in the adrenal gland, mets to the lungs, lymph nodes up to her neck, and on her lower spine( which is slowly breaking her spine). Our oncologist is completely awesome and we are very hap...

  June 07 at 8:23 PM view discussion