Cancer

My friend's mother has recently been diagnosed with an enlarged spleen and has to go ho hospital once a week for chemotherapy. She wont tell my friend what is wrong, perhaps she isnt sure herself, but my friend is really worried about her. Chemotherapy is used to treat cancer - what kind of cancer can cause an enlarged spleen? I'd like to be able to reasssure my friend that it's nothing serious but I dont think it sounds good.

2006-09-08 02:20:44 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does a cancer patient who still under-age has right to know about her own health condition? Doctor has just refuse to give me further cemotheraphy and she is curious about what acctually going on. All she know that she is in stage IV. Please tell what to do?

2006-09-07 20:48:57 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is anyone know alternative medicine for curing stage IV cancer? Doctor has refuse to give any further cemotheraphy, and advice for take alternative one. Please, your answer is so urgently need.

2006-09-07 20:29:49 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

She is having a difficult time. Looking for something positive and uplifting.

2006-09-07 19:39:14 · 9 answers · asked by barbaradjt 5

2006-09-07 17:11:02 · 10 answers · asked by ajitesh 1

I am making a flyer for a fundraiser. I am a Mary Kay beauty consultant.. and with October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month we are giving free facials to woman and then they will be ordering products. 50% of the proceeds will go to the Mary Kay Cancer fund. Anyways I am trying to think of an inspirational quote to put at the bottom of my flyer... any ideas?

2006-09-07 17:04:04 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you have any reactions from the treatment. Like being tired, or anything else?

2006-09-07 13:34:33 · 13 answers · asked by mickey 4

I had a biopsy done and all they could tell me over the phone is that it is not mild. What is a mild result and what could I have if it is not mild? Could I have precancerous cells or could I have cancer? Does mild mean precancerous, because they told me its not mild. So apparantly its pretty bad. I don't know what to think. Thanks

2006-09-07 11:50:06 · 11 answers · asked by Billys girl 3

2006-09-07 07:55:12 · 16 answers · asked by me_and_my_gang_2006 2

The patient is my mother and she is going through alot of surgery and stuff for cancer, and she has no health insurance. How can i get her treatment paid for? We live in Arkansas, but she's in a hospital in Tennessee.

2006-09-07 07:42:48 · 22 answers · asked by Southern Girl/ deal with it! 3

In a lot of answers (and questions) I hear about how AWFUL cancer treatments are. I don't usually hear it from people who have actually experienced them, but from someone who knows someone who said . . . These posters are often advising a terrified person, who knows someone who knows someone who said . . .

Now I know that reactions to treatments vary, and that some reactions might be pretty awful, even deadly. But I've known hundreds of cancer patients, including my mother, father, sister, brother, myelf and my son. While some of them died, very few of them who had treatment thought it wasn't worth it for the chance to live.

And the USUAL reactions I've seen are fatigue, nausea (treatable with drugs quite often), a tendency to infection, skin problems and baldness. There are certainly other side effects, but really, overall, most cancer patients I've known say they simply aren't that bad.

So why do people insist on telling these stupid stories to newly diagnosed people here?

2006-09-07 07:39:38 · 12 answers · asked by LazlaHollyfeld 6

I'm only 28 and I feel like an old man. I have to crack every joint I have(it seems like) just to not hurt. Any ideas?

2006-09-07 07:08:28 · 9 answers · asked by Jerrysberries 4

my father in law has bowel cancer which has spread to the liver, after doing much research and asking questions, i have discovered that things don't look good. My Husband however does not know this and i have not told him what i have found out.
My dilema is this, do i tell him or shall i just carry on as if i don't know, i am worried that if i don't tell him he might be angry if he ever finds out, but i also think that maybe if he doesnt know at least he won't worry anymore than he already is. Please help, i am not a bad person or secretive i am just confused.

2006-09-07 04:50:15 · 25 answers · asked by BRICK 3

can it ever be cured or will it just be treated, to give longer life expectancy?

2006-09-07 04:19:52 · 11 answers · asked by BRICK 3

They are usually found rectally I think but can also be found on the cervics, etc.

2006-09-07 02:21:51 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a friend who was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma. It started in the colon and metastised to the lungs and liver. With chemotherapy he was given 2 years to live. He started the process of chemo, his cancer cell count was in the 900's, it has dropped to the 200's. Is there hope? Does this mean that there is a chance that he can beat this? Or is this a sign that is life may be prolonged longer than expected?

2006-09-07 02:20:52 · 3 answers · asked by klukach@sbcglobal.net 2

Recently, someone in my family said they had cervical cancer and was diagnosed 10 years ago. In the beginning, they said that the doctor performed a pap smear, and from this, diagnosed her with cervical cancer. He gave her 10 to 15 years to live and told her, "Live your life!". Apparently, in the 90's, their was no cure or even treatment for this form of cancer.

However, after researching cervical cancer, I discovered that cervical cancer was typiclly caused by HPV, that a bioapsy must be performed in order to even diagnose this form of cancer, there are treatments, it's curable, and doctors typically give people 5-years to live upon diagnosis.

I presented these facts to the person making this claim and was told that in the 90s there was no cure for this cancer...the terms she used to describe her diagnosis wasn't medical at all.

What are the symptoms of cervical cancer? Ways it is diagnosed and treated? Was it treatable in the 90s? How can someone survive for 10-years?

2006-09-07 00:39:12 · 7 answers · asked by Valerie H 1

She has cancer from 1996 and now she is curing herself with C vitamin 10.000mg/day.I need an alternative cliniq working even with trials to help her urgently

2006-09-06 22:59:44 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

and can you prove it?

2006-09-06 22:05:24 · 12 answers · asked by Vice 2

2006-09-06 16:56:17 · 3 answers · asked by Helen S.A 1

2006-09-06 16:31:27 · 7 answers · asked by Helen S.A 1

2006-09-06 15:53:02 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-06 15:47:17 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

i need your help asap. thanks!

2006-09-06 15:45:52 · 12 answers · asked by xyster8 1

ystem kills the cancerous cells off before they reproduce exponentially thus thus forming the series of diseases known as cancer?

2006-09-06 15:42:08 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

My friend doesn't believe that secondhand smoke(a.k.a. passive or involuntary smoking) causes lung cancer. She said there was no proof that someone has died from second hand smoke and a couple more of my friends say second hand smoke does not cause lung cancer. I was pretty sure it did but i went ahead and researched it anyhow even though all of my childhood I have been told it is bad. From the research I acquired it states second hand smoke does not only increase the chance of lung cancer but also causes many other diseases. A recent study in May 2006 also proved those claims to be true and underestimated.My friend's argument is that the ciggerette smoke doesn't cause lung cancer it just increases the factor, but if it increases the factor doesn't it have chemicals that cause the cells to mutate causing cancer. So if it causes the cells to mutate in a sense it causes lung cancer.If you could tell me of anyone you have known that has died from the effects of 2nd hand smoke. Thanks!

2006-09-06 14:07:49 · 17 answers · asked by dulcenena488 1

My two year old daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and I don't know who to talk to.

2006-09-06 12:09:56 · 7 answers · asked by Hailee's mom 1

Does anyone here know anything about this diease? My step- father found out today that he had this. One spot was removed a week ago from the bladder.

2006-09-06 11:46:49 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

going for a biopcy on some micro nodules found on the outside of my lung

2006-09-06 08:36:57 · 2 answers · asked by blonde 1

If you have neuropathy, can it have been caused by cancer?

2006-09-06 06:07:36 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous