Re: my neighbor's cancer

From: Jeff (kidsdoc2000_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:25:09 -0500

"Sharon and Mike" <registered2705@netlimit.com> wrote in message
news:VK8_d.51570$%Y4.9967@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
>I am new here, but thought maybe someone could answer a question.
>
> I have a neighbor, who has just been diagnosed with liver cancer. She
> didn't even know she had cancer, and for a year she would have some back
> pain, not knowing what it was. So she was prescribed pain killers, and no
> doctor ever went any further with it. It just so happened that she went
> with her husband, who is in remission from throat cancer, to his doctor
> and told him of her pain. She asked him if he would recommend someone for
> her, and he did.
>
> So she found out she had cancer cells in her liver, and surrounding lymph
> nodes. They believe it started in her ovaries. But she kept up a normal
> life for over a year, worked full time, and wasn't bothered by anything
> much but some back pain, which was the cancer.

Actually, the back pain could have been something else, like sore muscles.

It sounds like she has stage IV ovarian cancer (not liver cancer).

Ovarian cancer is hard to diagnose. Because the ovaries are so deep and the
cancer can spread so easily, women often go a long time without knowing
something is really wrong.

http://patient.cancerconsultants.com/ovarian_cancer_treatment.aspx?id=883

or find more info here: http://www.nci.nih.gov/ (click on women's cancers
for a link to ovarian cancer).

It sounds like she has a 1 in 10 chance of being around in 10 years.

http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/default.asp?page=5449

To be around in ten years, she needs the best treatment. I would highly
recommend that she goes to one of the best cancer hospitals in the country
for a second opinion. She should also consider taking part in a clinical
trial.

Here is a list of 18 excellent hospitals:
http://www.aarpmagazine.org/health/Articles/a2003-01-17-cancerhospitals.html
or click on treatment here: http://www.nci.nih.gov/. It has great info.

Jeff

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