My friend has cancer and had the cancerous tissue removed at Sloane Kettering...?
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It is good that they were able to remove the cancer. Sloan Memorial Kettering is a top cancer facility. But, cancer is a complicated disease.\n\nIn order to answer your question it would help to know what type of cancer your friend has, what stage the cancer was in (one tumor in one area or multiple tumors within the body) the rate of tumor growth (aggressive or slow growing), and the grade of the tumor (low means almost normal, high grade means very abnormal looking cells)\n\nOutcome of surgery and overall prognosis depends upon your friends general health, age,  and ability to undergo further treatment. It is not enough in most cases to just remove the cancer. Cancer has the ability to metastasize or spread out tiny, microscopic cells throughout the body. \n\nDepending upon the stage and grade of the tumor will determine what type of treatment that will be offered.\n\nIf the doctor was unable to resect the entire tumor and some tissue was left behind further treatment is necessary. This leftover cancer has the ability to metastasize. In order to prevent this an oncologist will recommend chemotherapy or radiation or both to try and kill off any remaining cancer cells.\n\nYour friend may also have secondary health issues that have become complicated by having cancer too. It's hard to speculate without knowing all the facts in this case.\n\nHope your friend feels better soon. She just may need time.
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Your best bet would be to get in touch with Neroblastoma researchers and doctors at St.Judes as they are the best hospital in the world.I spent almost 2 years straight there when my daughter was battleing a rare form of Leukemia.Called acute promyelocitic Leukemia. She's in remission after relapsign three times!
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Bad news:  this is not curable\nGood news:  if the cancer mets are restricted to her bones only, she may have many years left.  Zometa (zoledronic acid) is definitely a good option, as is Taxotere (very well tolerated chemotherapy).  She DEFINITELY needs to have  Her-2 neu test to see if she would benefit from Herceptin (they should be able to perform this test on the tissue they have from her previous surgery, or on new tissue if she has another biopsy).  \n\nAlso, if she is getting her period regularly, her doctor may advise ovarian ablation or lupron therapy, since she is PR +.  \n\nGood luck on the PET scan.
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Carcinoma of the stomach is a tough one. Be the best friend you can to your friend and his wife. It sounds like she is already getting the best care possible. sorry
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My mom was diagnosed three years ago. She had stage 3 breast cancer. It spread to the lymphnoids and she ended up having a double mastectomy. She's had plastic surgery and is now a fully developed cancer-free 46 year old. I'm so proud of her.\n\nMy best friends sister has Hodgkins disease. It's in her neck and she's currently undergoing treatment at Duke. He's having to stay with a friend while the rest of his family is with her. Please pray for her.\n\nI'd also like to say I'm sorry for whatever reason you posted this. Cancer is a hard thing to deal with but I know dozens of people who have overcome this. I hope everything is okay with you. Good luck and remember that there are always people to support you or whoever you know.
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First thing is to talk to your friend, \n1- What ype of cancer her sister has?\n2- In what stage and what was the doctor's advice\n3- Find out more about it together, depending on your friend's character; I would say she would need support. Someone to talk to, realise steam and basically just be there...\nPeople et very scared when "cancer" is mentioned but many has cures or can be controlled, knowledge would be the best relieve. And then sometimes, there s nothing much in our hands, what will be will be; we can do much but to accept it.\nIf that is the case, she'll have a hard time. Terminal cancer is very hard on the patients and their family members.
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first of all, your friend was trying to protect you.  When things go wrong like that we as humans always seem to hurt the ones we love and those closest to us. maybe she was trying to safe you the pain and anguish of having to watch her die.and I am sure she was scared, both of dying and of how you might react.  It is always hard when a life ends with unfinished busines like this. I am sure if you knew the facts, then you would not have said these things to her, but i am sure she will forgive you.  WHen you went to the hospital did you tell her you did not mean what was said, as I am sure she appologised as well.  Only thing that can help is yourself, you have to accept that this was not under normal circumstances that this happened, and your friend did start by saying hurtful things to you.  People deal with things differently in life and this was her way off dealing with things.\n\nBest advice I can give is for you to give it time, and if time is not the answer then find someone who you can talk to, a friend, doctor or a councilor.  Try going to her grave and talk to her tell her you are sorry.  Perhaps you can raise funds in her name for the cancer unit at the local hospital as away of easing the burden.  If you are a believer in psychics and mediums, then they can help you con5tact her or pass on a message.  my e mail address if you need to chat is trishaf2001@yahoo.co.uk drop me a line f you want and we can go to msn and chat there  hope this helps.  just remember the good times \n\ngood luck
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All of those are questions that should be directed to her surgical and chemotherapy teams. Asking questions like this on this forum will likely only leave you more anxious than before you asked the question. Get info from the experts.
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My friend had benign tumors that grew in her arms. Go see a doctor!
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I got my palliative radiology for cancer in India through the forerunners healthcare .just paid 30% of the amount of what i was quoted in private surgery in London.\nI am very satisfied  with the results.\n\nhttp://www.forerunnershealthcare.com\n\nhope this helps
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I dont want to alarm you.  But my mother had breast cancer and it spread into her bones after being told 4 years earlier that she was cancer free.  After her dignosis in May of 2003, sadly it took intill Dec of 2004 to kill her.  She was only 49.  They tried everything from chemo to radiation.  They even had her on a hormone pill but the cancer had just spread so much.  I am really sorry about your friend my heart goes out to her.  I would find out what stage she is in.  My mother was in stage four so there was really not much they could do.  Through the treatments they provided it did prolong her life for a year and half after given a timeline of 6 months.  And again I am truly sorry about your friend.
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Hi Patz! I have really good news today and I'm glad that your question was still open.My mother was diagnosed with cancer almost a year ago and I was devastated by this news.This past months were by far the most difficult of my whole life! I've been living whith her and we had the opportunity to talk a lot,to became even closer than we already were.Yesterday,I took her to the doctor and he told us that her body is finally free of the cancer cells.I was so happy and so relieved! We know that this can came back any time but,for now,we are celebrating life! I can't think of better news!\nMoon :)
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I am reciting some of my experiences here – they are not meant to be boastful, rather I would like to inspire as many people who are suffering from cancer as possible – I would like to tell them – you can live normally! My best wishes to all, their families and friends! This is a long message so please do bear wtih me!\n\nThe stage grouping for my tumor was IVA (T3N0M0)  \n\nI ran a manufacturing plant in Mumbai (Bombay) and then moved to another city. I am a father of three beautiful kids- a son (age 20) who’s doing Engineering - Computer Science, a daughter (age17) who’s doing a pre-university science course and a school going younger son (age 10), and am very much in love with my wife of 25 years. We'll be celeberating our Wedding Siver Jubilee soon!\n\nOn August 30, 2002, I was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma - lower end common bile duct - by an MRI scan, I was 43 years old then (I married young), a malignant tumor was present at the joint between the head of my pancreas and the bile duct. This was further complicated by a scratch in my pancreas caused during ERCP on September 2, 2002. Though I have a high threshold of pain, the ERCP injury was almost intolerable and I had to be kept under sedation until surgery which took place on September 7, 2002. –.   Whipple’s procedure. \n\n\nMy gall bladder, omentum, part of my stomach, part of my pancreas (about 1/3rd),duodenum and the bile duct were removed. The margins were all clear. Right from September 1, 2002, when I had my last meal for quite some time, I was not fed anything at all, not even water. I was fed intravenously (I digress). \n\nReconstruction was carried out. I was in the operation theater and under anesthesia for almost 11 and ½ hours. Everything was fine until September 15, 2002, when excessive fluids started leaking out of the two drain holes made on both side of my abdomen. On that day in the morning I was fed with a low fiber diet with a tube connected directly to my stomach. I was very sick. My bowels gave away suddenly, and I lost control over my bladder. I started shivering violently and then suddenly felt very hot, I started sweating profusely and breathing was difficult even with an oxygen mask which had not been removed after surgery. Though in distress, my mind was very clear and lucid. I could see the expressions on the hospital staff and the doctors’ faces and understood that any second could be my last. That did not worry me or scare me, what worried me was my family’s fate after me, though after all the pain death was not an option that I wanted to reject outright.   \n\nI realized how serious I was, when experts advised that I be shifted to another hospital with better facilities a few miles away, and the doctors attending upon me, including the surgeon who’d operated on me and the anesthetist personally lifted me up and put me on a gurney to wheel me to the ambulance, rather than wait for the ward boys to come in. I remember the doctors periodically checking upon me by asking how I felt during the ambulance ride. I knew they wanted to know the level of my consciousness. I remember feeling the ambulance speeding and constant sound of the siren - not klaxon.\n\nI was quickly taken for an MRI scan and later my gurney with me on it was kept outside the hospital room, in a very safe and sterile place until the fate of my scan and probably, the doctors wanted to see if I would survive before admitting me into the hospital, Probably, if I know the law correctly, if I’d died within 24 hours of admission to a hospital a Post Mortem procedure would be mandatory.  I understood all this while I was waiting to be admitted to the better hospital, as I said, my mind was clear and lucid all throughout, I was very much aware of my surroundings, the people, the sounds and noises.\n\nAt that time I remember feeling quite pleasant, not hot at all and there seemed to be cool breeze wafting around me cooling me up. \n\nI was finally taken
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all answers are get to the GP and I second that but in 4 years hasn't anyone in your family advised you to do this it is a long time to be suffering pain in an area prone to cancer I'm not being scary Vicky but you must realise the delay in getting medical attention is risky! very risky!!  good luck to you and i hope all ends well
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macro-lobulated mass, I pressume you mean.\n\nThis is bad, it is likely cancer.  Tissue is the issue, no answer until they have a tissue diagnosis.  If he smokes, then it is likely very bad news.\n\nBiopsy is everything, but odds are not great.  Anything other than cancer is going to have a pretty good prognosis, and thus not worth discussing until the biopsy is done.
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It is up to her oncologist. Get a good one. Maybe she will be given radiotherapy. She should stop eating too much meat, do alot of deep breathing cos it seems cancer cells don't like and can't survive on oxygen but thrive on carbon dioxide. Take alot of fresh fruit juice (buy a juicer and start juicing). Take wheatgrass and more vegetables.  Read up on ovarian cancer on the internet.
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I suspect that you already know the answer to this - it's a mixed result.\n\nNo new tumours is certainly positive,\nAny increase in a tumour size  (her liver) is not great news.\nThe reduction of the tumours in her lungs IS great news.\n\nI guess it depends now on how the ones in her liver react over the coming days.\n\nOf course if the tumours in her lungs were the one which were causing the most concern, then perhaps again this might be a little more posisitve than it seems at first.\n\nThe oncologist (cancer speciaiist) will be able to give FAR more accurate thoughts than any well meaning lay folks like me can give though - if possible please try and speak to one of the people who are treating her, they are QUALIFIED to comment.