6553 Cancer Blogs

Cancer Type: Anal Cancer

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer: Squamous cell carcinoma

Anal Cancer Symptoms: Anal pain ,bleeding felt like hemorrhoids

Chemotherapy Description, Dates & Side Effects: Very tired a bit nausea

Cancer Type: Anal Cancer

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer: Stage 1 so far Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Anal Cancer Symptoms: Bleeding

Bio: 30 years in Canada, 2 adult kids.. According to my daughter I am the best mom in the world, and I humbly agree. I love living here, and like to travel as a tourist in Europe and not necessarily home.. there is so much more to see .. I had big plans to travel all over Italy in 2020…more

Cancer Type: Anal Cancer

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer: SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA

Anal Cancer Symptoms: LUMP NO PAIN

Cancer Type: Nasopharyngeal Cancer

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer: Nonkeratinizing squamous cell

Nasopharyngeal Cancer Symptoms: Fullness in right ear, sinus headaches, tingling and numbness in upper right lip and cheek area near the nose, right side of tongue and right side of roof of mouth sensitive to salty and acidic foods

Chemotherapy Description, Dates & Side Effects: Started weekly induction chemo on 9/5/13 with carboplatin and paclitaxel- soreness in mouth, slight nausea, dry skin (severe itching), acid reflux. Started chemo-radiation on 11/4/13 using cisplatin. Received 5 weekly cisplatin treatments until wbc count was too low.

Cancer Type: Lung Cancer

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer: Metastatic poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma consistent with pulmonary primary

Surgery Description, Dates & Side Effects: removed a "golf ball" sized tumor, metastatic adenocarcinoma to the brain.

Bio: Single Mother of a wonderful 16 year old girl. 3 pets, dog a pug named Guinness, 2 cats Sneakers and Suggles.

Cancer Type: Colon and Rectal Cancer

Colon and Rectal Cancer Symptoms: Lower abdomnal pressure and pain when having bowels movements, diarreh/hard bowels movements at the same time. Began drinking nutritional drinks for food.

Surgery Description, Dates & Side Effects: Oct. 17 colonoscpy/ Oct 19 removed 18 inches of colon, 15 lymph nodes and appendix. Six days in hospital. Lymph nodes clear cancer had spread outside the wall of colon and almost completely closed off bowels.

Chemotherapy Description, Dates & Side Effects: 6 Months starting Dec 2, 2011. 5 hours every other week. 5-FU, Oxaliplatin and leucovorin. Will bring home 5-Fu in a bag for the weekend will run through port and bag removed on Mondays

Bio: Updated: 06/02/2020--I am 57 y/o female. 05/09/2020 was my 9 year Cancerversary!!! I am blessed-especially, when I learn that we lost another Warrior (Patty, 2019) who was Stage II anal cancer, as was I. What was different? I had surgery (that is how my cancer was found. Also, I just reread her profile. No Mitomycin was…more

Cancer Type: Anal Cancer

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer: squamous cell carcinoma of the anus

Anal Cancer Symptoms: Chronological order: Blood-tinged drainage for months, then heavy bleeding with BMs-which I "hoped", for months, would go away. A hard skin tag, change in stool appearance, increased difficulty defecating. PAIN!

Surgery Description, Dates & Side Effects: 02/17/11: Anal fissurectomy with lateral sphincterotomy. Only SE was pain. Now, I can poo w/o pain for the first time in MONTHS. It still looks weird (TMI.) This found the CA. 07/03/12--anal/rectal biopsy of suspicious tissue found during a DRE. Thankfully, it was only scar tissue.--I hurt like hell for 3 wks after though!! :/

Chemotherapy Description, Dates & Side Effects: Mitomycin and f5u-begin 4/12/11. . . . I was EXTREMELY tired and became EXTREMELY short-of-breath (ended up with bronchitis, but I have asthma.) One of the meds, Mytomycin, I think, can adversely affect the lungs. My thyroid got messed up so I now take meds. Nodules on lungs, on CT . . . monitoring those.

Cancer Type: Anal Cancer

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer: Squamous Cell carcinoma in the anus

Anal Cancer Symptoms: Rectal bleeding, pain with sitting, change in bowel habits, anal itching, fatigue.

Chemotherapy Description, Dates & Side Effects: 2 rounds mitomyacin (push) and 5 FU (infusion pump at home X 4 days). 12/23/19 & 01/20/20. Severe fatigue. Nausea. Gastroesophageal imbalance requiring prescription Pepcid. Intolerance to pain meds. Severe Diarrhea.

Cancer Type: Anal Cancer

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer: Sqaumous cell carcinoma

Anal Cancer Symptoms: Rectal bleeding

Chemotherapy Description, Dates & Side Effects: Mitomycic 1 IV push along with 5FU 96 hours on the first day then again on day 21

Cancer Type: Ovarian Cancer

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer: high-grade serous ovarian adenocarcinoma (sub-type of epithelial)

Ovarian Cancer Symptoms: I found a lump in my neck above my collarbone, and I had been having shortness of breath when speaking and exercising. Also tightness of upper chest when exercising.

Surgery Description, Dates & Side Effects: TAHBSO and section of supraclavicular lymph node on July 25th, 2011; emergency flap craniotomy (brain surgery) Jan 30, 2016

Chemotherapy Description, Dates & Side Effects: Combined carboplatin and taxol, both administered systemically by IV started August 10, 2011, with last cycle administered November 23, 2011. Side effects included: nausea that was only gotten under control after the second administration using about 5 drugs; intense fatigue; muscle and joint pains that were reduced with tylenol and later greatly reduced with gabopentin; intense neuropathy in hands…more