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Aug 19 2010, 6:55 PM EDT by
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A week ago, we were a normal family. We have a normal dad, a normal mom, a normal teenage me, and a normal little sister. And then on Tuesday my entire world changed. Everything. My mom has cancer, and it might be spreading. And I don't know what to do. I mean, I'm helping with chores, so my mom doesn't have to work so hard, because I don't understand what she's going through. And I'm already preparing myself for the worst, because I need to let go of my own emotional needs and focus on hers. I have to balance studying for high school exams, and I need to keep my dad and sister in a good condition, because my dad's not handling it too well, and my sister's only 10. I don't know how to help. I'm being supportive, and I'm helping around the house, and I'm hugging her, and smiling, and telling her she's going to get better, and when she leaves, I burst into tears. But my emotions aren't the important ones right now.
I just need to find some way to hope, some way to know that there are other people who have made it through this. That way, I can help her better. And actually believe the things I say.
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Bill Barry spent his life helping others. Now with cancer, he needs th
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We are trying to raise funds for Bill Barry's cancer care. Bill Barry has been disabled since 1994, and in that time, he has given so much of his heart and his time to helping others. He's a proud man who's never asked anyone for anything he couldn't repay immediately. The bills will be more than his wife can afford on her limited income. Medicaid will only pay 80%, and nothing of his prescription cost. In his hometown of East Bloomfield NY, he is an unsung hero where everyone knows his name, but the donation cans in this farming town cannot raise enough to cover his care.
He has no choice but allow us to try and provide the assistance he needs to cover the costs of his medical care. His needs surely only add up to a fraction of the time and energy and things he's given to others, never asking for a thing in return
To help him go to http://billbarryfightscancer.weebly.com
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Found a lump in my thigh
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Cancer: Stories, Support and Information
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Aug 7 2010, 12:46 AM EDT by
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Thread started: Oct 2 2009, 5:05 AM EDT
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I recently found a lump in my thigh and am curious to know if cancer lumps hurt to the touch. Could someone out there shed some light, please?
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Aug 7 2010, 12:46 AM EDT
if i were u i personly go to the docters and see whats wrong and if its cancer i hope u get better
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Aug 4 2010, 8:24 PM EDT by
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well my paw paw was a great man and for 13yrs he had cancer and this summer june 28 2010 he lost his battal well he um wasent feelen so good 1 day and so my family took him to the hostiptal and the put him on life suport well we all knew he was gonna die aventully he was so bad and um well the last past few yrs he was sick so well after being in the hospital 4 idk how many days the decited to take him off life suport and he died we will always miss him R.I.P james dale wren he was a great father grandfather uncle brother and great grandfather
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Mom diagnones with cancer and I don't know how to react.
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Jul 21 2010, 11:58 AM EDT by
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I found out 3 days ago that my mom is diagnosed with stomach cancer. I was the last one to find out in my family. I'm now wishing that I wasn't told. I know that doesn't make sense but I guess I'm just angry about it. My family is really big (I've got 9 siblings) and we don't really talk to each other (kind of disfunctional). I live in another State, so I can't really do anything for her, besides I really don't even know how to react or what to say to her. I'm pretty sure that the prognosis is not good, since she's 72 years old, and also has recently been diagnosed with diabetes. She passed a kidney stone 5 years ago. I know through other family members that she's been suffering for a long time. The cancer diagnosis is just the most serious thing, she's supposed to start chemotherapy soon. I d k what stage she is at, but I don't know how to talk to my sister (who is a registered nurse and knows the medical side of it). I don't know how to talk to any of my siblings-- like I said we're really disfunctional. I just don't know how to react. I feel guilty because I don't even know what to say to her or anyone in my family.
My wife is going to have a daughter very soon, and only 2 of my siblings congratulated me when I emailed my whole family the news. I have conflicting emotions towards my Mom, I don't hate her or anything. It's painful because my brothers,sisters, extended family and my Dad don't communicate. I think my whole family is sick since we don't really communicate.
I have some feelings of rage towards people, sometimes I honestly hate people and I don't know why. I hold a lot of secret resentments and I have stress and finding out my Mom has cancer has really made me stressed! This is only the tip of the iceberg but it gives someone an idea. Please help because I really don't know what to do!
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By: goingforward,
Jul 21 2010, 11:58 AM EDT
To forgive is releasing someone from "prison" only to find you yourself were the prisoner released.
Cancer patients need love and support and mostly want to be treated "like they are not cancer patients". Do you have any favorite memories of your Mom? Something special that she cooked that you loved! Or hated? Laugh with her about it.
Go to see her.....but do so with an open and forgiving heart.
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My mom has stage 3 colon cancer.
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Jul 15 2010, 5:20 PM EDT by
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I'm a 16 year old girl and i just found out my mom has stage 3 colon cancer about a month ago. She said she first started noticing it back in April but was to scared to tell us. I was the first person she told aside from the doctors. Hardly anyone knows about it, not even my dad as it is her wish not to tell him yet. The hard part is since im only 16, im sort of lost. My brother is leaving for college and my dads always working. I hate seeing my mom in pain and she throws up all night until the morning time and that is every day. The doctors said the tumer is getting bigger and they give her til January or December. I dont know if im just in denial but i honestly believe she is not going to die but as time goes on i see how much worst shes getting and im not so sure. She passes out atleast once a day and i dont know how to drive yet and she passed out on the wheel the other day, the car was swerving and i managed to wake her up. I am a very strong girl because ive been through so many situations that the only thing i know how to do is be strong. I try not to show her im freaked out and if i cry i do silently in the shower or bathroom. I felt i needed to vent on here for anyone reading. She says its my job to do everything around the house now which im fine with but it is going to be hard to give up everything but i dont care. The hardest part is that she doesnt even think i care about her because i show no emotion but i dont want to show her im worried i dont know how to react and our relationship was never in its best state so now idk how to treat her sometimes, just the same as before or not because now i just bypass our little arguments. I'm also very loving but im starting to develop hate towards people which i know is wrong but since my mom is very protective over me, people say shes to controlling. People sent us hate letters in the mail saying crap about her and it makes her cry, i hate it people have no clue whats going on and they do this.
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Jul 15 2010, 5:20 PM EDT
you need to tell someone, you will crack up otherwise. do you have a friend or relative who is not being such a sack of **** to you? you also need space to grieve now, i know it sounds weird but my mum was dying from january, lost her may 6th. you will be in a bubble for a long time my thoughts are with you xx
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Jul 12 2010, 10:59 PM EDT by
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My husband Mitch and I met in September 09, we married in March. We were so happy and were looking so forward to our life together. Just before Thansgiving we found out that Mitch had stage 4 lung cancer non small cell, I can not tell you the pain we both felt, God why now, we have just started our lives together. We are sole mates, what am I going to do if I loose him? Mitch told me he was going to beat it, God knows I wanted to believe him. He started his treatment the end of November, he recieved several chemo and radiation treatments, he was so sick. I quit my job and waited on him hand and foot, I told him I was his angel and that I loved him so much, I would rub his back and hold him every nite till he drifted asleep. At one point I was loosing hope. Mitch promised me he was not going to leave me. I prayed every day that God would cure him, we were told July 12 th 2010 that Mitch is in remission. God does answer prayers. My advise to anyone that has been told they have lung cancer, do not give up! with love hope and faith you also can beat it.
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my mom has cancer too and i am also lost
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My Mom Has Cancer....I am lost.
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Jun 25 2010, 10:58 AM EDT by
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im 13 yrs old who lives in arligton heights illinois and my mom has just been dignosed with cervicle cancer i found out this morning and i couldnt stop cryin ... i feel terible because i cant look at her withought starting to cry and i dont want to be with her right now i no she relyy needs my support especialy since my parents got divorced just last year ... but i dont know what to do plaese someone help me
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Jun 25 2010, 10:58 AM EDT
Hello. I hope you and your mom are doing okay. Have you been able to find help in learning how to support your mom? Some hospitals have services that help familes understand about going through cancer. It isn't easy to go through cancer, and I am sure that your mom has days when she does not feel well. I think the most important thing that you can do is just love your mom and do little thing that will make her smile.
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this is all way too complicated. No wonder 5 of the top ten F.A.Q.s are photo related.
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my mum has cancer, and i dont know what to do with myself.
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Apr 12 2010, 2:58 PM EDT by
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I don't even know how this site works, or why I'm even bothering to post anything. I don't need help, or attention, and I certainly don't need anyones guidance or sympathy. I guess, I just need to say what I feel, and how things are happening with me.
Basically, I'm 15 years old and I live in the middle of England. When I was 12, my mum was diagnosed with Breast Cancer, and I don't know whether I had more faith back then, or whether I was just too naieve to realise what was happening, but I don't remember ever feeling so depressed like I do now.
In November last year, she was diagnosed again with Breast Cancer. When she told me the news, it felt like my whole life had suddenly become unrecognisable again. I just want something normal to grab hold of, just something solid in my life.
I've always been a strong person, and I know that I can cope with this, and I have done, just ignoring everything, never saying anything out loud, so it doesn't seem real. But very recently, it feels like I've just burst. I don't want to eat, I don't want to go out. I don't even want to wake up. I hate the way my life seems to be going, and I hate the way I blame my mother. I hate that I'm pushing people away when I need them, but I don't know what else to do.
My close friend is battling anorexia, and all I've done is be a close support to her the past few weeks, and that's distracted me from my own problems. But now I feel like she doesn't need my help anymore, and I'm just lost. I'm scared of everything, and I end up overthinking just about everything. I find it hard to take risks, and I find it hard to talk to people about what's been happening and how I feel.
Like I said, I don't need anyones help or sympathy, I guess I just felt like I would feel a bit better if I posted how I felt, somewhere where everyone else understood.
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Lonafarib, a farnesyltransferase inhibitor (FTI) is emerging as a potential drug for the treatment of progeria since the results of phase I clinical trials appears promising. Lonafarib is under investigation for the treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes, bladder cancer and many more cancers.
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Back to the Futrue: Life After Cancer
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Hello, my name is Arturo Scolamacchia and I'm an Airman in the USAF. In mid november my mother was diagnosed with Colon cancer that had also spread to her liver. I was told this news by her when I took leave the following december around christmas. What a gift right? Anyway, me and my mother had always been close. You could definatly call me a mamma's boy and i'd agree openly. It is now April, I'm 19 years old and I am staioned in Osan AB, South Korea and am thousands of miles away from her. We communicate almost everyday through skype which is difficult because of the time difference (i'm 13 hours ahead). She just told me anout an hour ago that she was going to go back to Italy to be with her family and a more advanced cancer center. She also told me the doctors said that she had maybe a year left. Right now as I'm typing this, I don't really feel sad or angry because I can't afford to. My duty is more important and the mission must be accomplished. So I try to put aside my emotions so they don't affect my performance. It's not easy. Especially when I see reminders everywhere. What I'm trying to do is just let all the other victims of this hellish experience know that you are never alone. And I don't just mean others as in other people with parents who are dying, but I mean the actual victims. I'm going to be here in Osan for a year and hopefully I will be able to take leave to see her one more time. Sometimes I think I'm lucky that I don't have to see her this way all the time. Like I pretend that she's all better when not on the computer. But the truth of the matter is that the next time I see my mother she'll probably be gone. If any of you out there can meet, see, or hold that person dear to you please, for me, just do it. If you're reading this post, Get up and hug your mom or dad or whoever. I wish I could.
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If you have been diagnosed with cancer, but feel that you would like to participate more fully in your treatment, I invite you to check out The Cancer Cure Experiment (www.TheCancerCureExperiment.com). Our approach combines biblical truth with medical discovery to provide you with an opportunity to change your life.
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My mom has cancer :(
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Mar 20 2010, 10:12 PM EDT by
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Hi I"m 13 and my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer 3years ago. She went through chemo, radiation and had a mastectamy after which she was proclaimed cancer free. About 6 months ago we found out it had matastisized to her bones. Now it's in her brain, lungs, liver, hips, right calf muscle, sinuses, elbow and left hand. We have done radiation and more chemo and the radiation worked some but the chemo did nothing and the places on her lung and liver that can't be radiated got alot bigger. They think she's going ot die and if she does live she'll be kind of messed up in the head slightly from where they radiated her brain. What should I do? The only person we've ever know with bone cancer died! And I"m the only one around during the day so mom gets angry and frusterated with ma ALLOT!!!! So how should I respond to this?
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My mom has cancer too and I'm lost
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My Mom Has Cancer....I am lost.
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Feb 21 2010, 3:29 PM EST by
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My mom has cancer as well. I lost my father to cancer at 25, i lost my grandmother to cancer two days before christmas this year, and I found out recently that my mom has pancreatic cancer. They removed part of her pancreas and the hope was she would heal. But her post op scan after 6 months did not yield good results. I am holding out hope but its tough. I am the same as the girl above, I do not show emotion around my mom, I don't bat an eye. I hug her all the time and tell her I love her, but other then that, I act like nothing is changed. When I am alone I cry all the time. I can't talk about it with many people because all I want to do is cry. I am scared as hell, and I feel like my family is shrinking around me. The most recent diagnosis was as short as 6 months and as long as a few years, but no body knows. I am scared and don't know what to do. I am thinking of having the doctor prescribe me xanax, but I feel that is a short term answer. After my dad died I smoked pot a lot, pretty much all the time. The funny thing is outside of a few friends no one really knew. Good eye drops and my already silent personality did not make me stick out. And when you smoke pot enough, it really does not have that much of an external effect, just affected how I felt inside, which was normal, or at least relaxed. And for those of you reading this who think that I am some unaccomplished pothead, that is not the case. My father died the same year I graduated from law school. I smoked pot during law school, I smoked after law school, and while I am being honest, I smoked a blunt by myself in my hotel room the night before I took the bar exam for the first and only time, and I passed. I am practicing lawyer now, and as sad as it is to say, it really was the only way for me to feel normal again. My dad was my best friend and I still haven't gotten over losing him. And now I am faced with this road again.
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my mom also has cancer and I too am lost.....
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Feb 21 2010, 3:23 PM EST by
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Iv had a small (pea sized), hard, dark pinkish lump on my arm for around 5 or 6 years. Its never grown or changed in shape, has never bled or itched or hurt so iv always put off going to a doctor about it. Im a 19 year old male and have had this since i was atleast 13. Im just wondering is it likely it could be serious?
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