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A very special support group.
Whether you have cancer or someone close
to you is battling this dreaded disease
you will find friends here that will help.

Please make yourself at home.
We all need to vent our feelings at times
so never be afraid to share your feelings and
frustrations with us.
Good times or bad times we are all here for
each other.

posted by sandrajo

I've been in remission for 3 years and 10 months from stage 4 ovarian cancer.

No matter how you try, it lies in the back of your mind; the possibility of it recurring or spreading. I am still visiting my oncologist every 4 months

I went back to work 2 months after surgery in 2004 because I had to. I am a widow and could not afford to retire. Fortunately, it was a good move for me.

Would welcome any responses from survivors. Thanks for this forum.

posted by paullo911
about 1 year ago

Yes, it does lie in the back of my mind and sometimes it comes forward to haunt me. I have been okay for 4 and a half years! I just had a visit with my onco and they found something suspicios but then I went for a CT scan and it seems to be okay. My cancre was in the right breast and only a stage 1 so I had just a lumpectomy but I have to take Femara pills for a total of 5 yrs. It will be 5 in April that I had the surgery but I didn't start the medicine until Oct of that yr.

Please check into EFA (essential Fatty acids) like from flax seeds and other things. They are supposed to help fight cancer.

posted by platform5
2 months ago

Well. I had ovarian procedures back in the 90's and then non-smoking lung in 2006; now metastases in brain and bones---but not bad tumours. I've had all the chemo and radiation---wonderful doces-- and now trying the new Tarceva.
I remain confident I will have more active years.
As a divorce with two sons in college, and no close support group--I will live to see them into adulthood, I pray always for others and myself!
Hang in there.