**Biggirl **I am sorry. Really sorry. The same to you Red, if you need anything you know how to reach me, please feel free to do so.
I had cancer when I was very young, but went into remission. It returned again when I was a little older. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I thought prognosis and survival rates for prostate cancer was pretty good. So its not all bad, at least its not stage III lung cancer. Do they know what stage it is or the Gleason score or anything like that? Maybe its not so bad and is something like early stage cancer, which has a good survival rate.
Oh, that sucks. 
What type of leukemia do you have?
Oh my God I’m so sorry.
My mother had uterine cancer and my father went through two bouts of prostate cancer. They’re fine now. My grandfather died of lymphatic cancer so my mother never had the chance to meet him.
Add me to the cancer haters.
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia. They say its they pancreas that doesnt agree with me 
kimera is there something you’re trying to say to me here?
Is there something I should be saying? 
I’ve read that l-asparaginase which is used in the treatment of ALL can cause pancreatic cancer, but the details you provided didn’t sound like what I knew of ALL. Then I remembered you were from Australia and I remembered another study I read which suggested a link between Australian Vietnam Vet’s children and AML. I had suspected you had one of those two types but wanted to know if I was right or not.
Have you already gotten your wish from the Make a Wish Foundation?
Fair enough kimera.
No, no wish because my cancer has never been terminal so I havent seen the need. My fathers company did sponsor the Make A Wish Foundation and also gave me a special wish but thats an entirely different story.
Get one! If not for yourself, then for your family, it can really make a difference. I know my parents ran themselves ragged running to and fro from the hospital and how nice it was for them to relax and get away. I assume that you already have all the contact information for that and for other support groups for children with cancer? If not, I have some information about that too.
I don’t want to hijack this thread anymore, but if you would be willing to participate in a thread in MPSIMS, I’d be interested in learning about the different treatment steps they do overseas. Over here they do some rather interesting ones, like guided imagery instead of anesthesia for spinal taps.
Good luck!
Did you have cancer or was it a family member? I don’t mind joining in a thread thought I don’t know if I’d have much to offer that others haven’t heard. I didnt think treatment was a great deal different in the US, maybe I was wrong.
I’m fine without the wish, my parents are ok and I paid for them to have a weekend away for their anniversary because they’ve been so stressed. Maybe an idea, but I don’t know if it’s the thing for us.
Holy crap! That’s impressive. I wish I’d had that kind of money when I was a kid! How admirable of you. 
Took my grandfather in December (leukemia).
Two months ago, I had to tell a 26 year old that there was nothing anybody could offer for him anymore, and we weren’t going to transfuse him with more blood and that he would die before the week was out (choriocarcinoma with mets throughout the GI tract).
Two days later, a good friend, a 30 year old pediatrics second year resident who was devoting his life to providing health care to the most underserved people in the country, was diagnosed with medulloblastoma. He’s now entering his third month in the hospital with severe cerebellar findings (uncoordination, scanning speech, relearning how to write and walk) and facing a year of chemo and radiation.
And then last month, I had to tell a 25 year old that he had a 7 inch mass in his right lung which was a poorly differentiated primary mediastinal mixed germ cell tumor (a variant on a testicular cancer with no primary lesion in the testicle) and that just for good measure we were probably going to have to perform a bilateral radical orchiectomy, and he needed 7 months of very tough, weekly chemo. I also had to explain how when the oncologists said “good prognosis” what they meant was that 50% of people were alive and cancer free at 5 years out.
Tell me about it. Cancer fucking sucks.
It’s crazy how much variation there is with cancer. When I saw my Aunt in July 2002 she looked happy, healthy and as beautiful as always. In less than a year, she was dead, leaving behind 3 small children. She had battled it for 8 years and everything seemed to be going well and then a routine checkup uncovered news no one ever wants to hear.
Leukemia runs in my family and since we’ve spent a lot of time in hospitals, we’ve met a lot of other children with leukemia. My cousin Amanda just lost her friend from the children’s ward last month. Her friend was only diagnosed 2 and 1/2 years ago.
I’ve been working instead of going to school so I saved up. Plus they helped me through everything so they deserved something in return.
Word. Did you win the lottery or something?
As for the topic of the thread, my friend’s uncle just died from pancreatic cancer in August. No one in my current family (i.e. people I’ve met; I’m not counting distant relatives and ancestors) has ever had cancer, as far as I know, except maybe my step-grandfather, who died when I was about six. I think he had liver cancer, but I’m not really sure.
That’s a wonderful thing for you to do. I wish you and Biggirl, and her landlord, and everybody who has cancer the best of luck.
Fucking cancer.
Strangely, this is my biggest regret. Not that my mother (breast cancer when I was in grad school) didn’t meet my wife–she practically chose my wife for me! But my wife and I have a daughter now, and my mother would have been a sweet and loving grandmother–her granddaughter would have been a real source of joy to her.
Atheist Princess–Shit! I remember your I KO’d Kancer thread, and I was very happy for you. This is sad news indeed.