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Name:
sue (sue123)

Member Since:
June 27, 2007

Home page:
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Location:
Michigan

Birthday:
5-1-52

Type of Cancer:
Colon and Rectal Cancer

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer:
colon cancer

Diagnosis Date:
6-03

Stage of Cancer:
Stage 4

Lymph Node Involvement:
Yes

Surgery:
Lymph Node Removal, Re-excision Surgery

Chemotherapy:
Fluorouracil

What I Hate Most About Cancer:
How it hurts soooo many people!

What I Have Learned From Cancer:
I live to the fullest everyday.

Things My Supporters Can Do To Help:
Pray for everyone's pain and suffering.

Cancer Symptoms:

animic—I also have lupus and this was found on a routine blood test. I had no other symtoms. Had I got a colonoscopy one year earlier at age 50, I probably would not have got cancer. Please have a colonoscopy at least by age 50! Earlier if there is a family history or if you have symtoms.

Surgery Description, Dates & Side Effects:

6-03 stage 3 colon cancer. Removed right colon, gallbladder, ovaries and lymph nodes (one positve)
12-06 stage 4 colon/liver cancer. Had 1/3 liver removed and swollen nodes near by (positive). Detected by CEA blood test-the pet scan. Did 28 days of radiation, then onto oral chemo therapy. I take Xeloda 21 days a month. I have been on this now for 8 months.
Febuary 08- spread to lungs—now on chemo therapy IV’s (folfox6, Avastin 5FU-levo and Oxi) 6 hours one day-4 hours next day and wear fanny pack filled with chemo for 48 hours at the same time as treatments. I do this every other week.

Radiation Description, Dates & Side Effects:

28 days after second surgery. Felt ok until the last week in which I was very tired.

Chemotherapy Description, Dates & Side Effects:

6-03—36 weeks of IV chemo therapy. Had problems with severe diarrah, nausa and fatigue 3 days out of 7. Slightly ill the rest of the days with same symtoms, but milder.
2007—doing much better on chemo therapy by adding alternitves. (read below)
12-07- oral Xeloda (chemo therapy). Take for 2 weeks straight 2 times a day, then one week off. Side effects are slight now that I take fermented wheat germ, green wheatgrass and mangoseed juice. The juice improved my energy level a lot! I think we are seeing some results from the fermented wheatgerm as we are now starting to see on my cat scans that things have kind of stopped. In the England Cancer Journal they have proved that fermented wheat germ can slow and sometime cure cancers. The mangoseed juice is made in Asia, this is the only place it grows. It is extremely high levels of antioxidants! Knock on wood I haven’t been sick since I started it! I also only eat organic (as much as I can) I eat lot’s of greens and fruits. I get protein from the grains and I also eat a lot of nuts. I have felt so much better since doing this it is unbelievable.. I have hand and foot syndrome that this chemo can cause..this can/is be very painful.
Febuary 08-New treatments of folfox6, Avastin and 5FU—extreme fatigue-nausa-diarreha-controled by medications for the most part. Need to rest a lot.

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