CommunityDiscussions About Chemotherapy

1. How do you keep the holidays bright while in the hospital getting cancer treatment?

   Community Discussion - Is anyone having to handle caring for a parent in the hospital with cancer or undergoing chemotheraphy while the holidays are happening? What things are you doing to make it as happy and fun as you can, if anything? Please share your ideas.

2. Lung Cancer Only From Smoking?

   Community Discussion - Has anyone heard or know of someone who was diagnosed with lung cancer but it wasn't because of smoking (or second hand smoke)?

3. What do you do when a doctor doesn't take your recurrence fears seriously?

   Community Discussion - My Dr. did not believe me when I told her I thought my cancer was back.

4. Has anyone else been told that surgery is not an option for advanced prostate cancer?

   Community Discussion - why is surgery not an option for advanced prostate cancer when the cancer has spread outside the prostate?

5. Cancer - Can It Respond To Chemo After You've Decided To Stop Treatment?

   Community Discussion - my dad was not responding to his chemo and they gave him 2 weeks after leaving the hospital to live .....its been about a month and hes only getting better, could this be right? can you respond later like a late reaction?

6. My sister has started her chemo, and it's so difficult for us both.

   Community Discussion - Hello, well my sister started her chemo about 4 weeks ago and it is really taking its toll on her. You read all the info on what to expect but when you see it is something else.She tries to keep her sense of humor going to keep others from feeling down, i told her that is all fine and well but if you...

7. Sister's Hair Just About Gone.

   Community Discussion - Since i took my sister to have her hair cut when it started coming out was the begining of something i thought i was ready for, lord was i wrong. She began wearing scarf's and bandana's and i alway's give her time to herself when she is working(so to speak)on her head...

8. My wife has pain in her feet after chemo - what can we do?

   Community Discussion - Please help me; My wife went through chemo and now her feet hurt. I know what caused it right now I am looking for answers (sometime she can't even walk so much for the treatment of chemo :( )all I am looking for is something to ease her pain please anyone out there know what i can do ?

9. My husband is dying of cancer and I don't know what else to do.

   Community Discussion - My husband was given months to live. All chemo and nuclear radiation has been done. He is now bleeding into a cathater and needs blood 3 pints one week 2 pints the next. No report on blood work this week. I am irrigating him and am thinking of hospice. Any help for me

10. My wife is still so sick after radiation - is it really always this bad?

    Community Discussion - My wife is still so sick after radiation - is it really always this bad?

11. Perpetual Chemo~~How Many Doses Can One Really Take?

    Community Discussion - HI. My father has end stage prostate cancer with mets to the bone. He is on his 12th round of Taxitare chemotherapy. It is keeping the cancer at bay, however, each round of chemo takes more of the man I knew away with each dose. The cure will kill him before the cancer...

12. Is Oral Sex Safe While On Chemo?

    Community Discussion - Is it ok to have 2-way oral sex if spouse is on chemo?

13. I Just Turned 23, And I Don't Know How To Cope With My Father's Diagnosis.

    Community Discussion - I told my parents I was having trouble, but no one seems to care.

14. Mom And Ovarian Cancer Treatment - Is it Working and How Can We Pay For It?

    Community Discussion - My mother was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer Stage 4 back in 2009. She survived the surgery and is on her 2nd round of chemo. One of the problems is that she feels that she is dying and the chemo is not working for now. It is still spreading. We are a low income family...

15. Oncologist Can't See Her For Six Weeks! What If That's Too Late?

    Community Discussion - I found out last week that my MIL has stage IV cancer. She has a 10 cm spot in her head that is believed to be the main source. She also has 2 smaller spots on her spine, one near her breast and a mass on top of her shoulder. So it has spread to more than 1 area. They have decided it is in too many spots to remove surgically, or use radiation...

16. I need help dealing with Mom's sudden terminal lung cancer diagnosis.

    Community Discussion - My Mom started having an extremely bad headache, nausea, vomiting, and confusion so I took her to the emergency room Wednesday and after seven hours of waiting she was so frustrated and sick she wanted to leave saying we could come back in a few days if she was not feeling better...

17. Beginning Chemotherapy Questions About Nutrition

    Community Discussion - My mother was diagnosed w/ stomach and ovarian cancer two years ago. Apparently, she had a very unique situation where the two locations were not the same cancer. In order to keep the ovarian cancer from spreading, she had a hysterectomy. Unfortunately, the ovarian cancer was in Stage IV...

18. My brother needs, but is angry about accepting help. What can I do for him?

    Community Discussion - hi my brother just had pancreatic cancer surgery and 3 days latter he had to have open heart surgery , hes doing pretty well but he is getting ready to start chemo and rad ,,,,,,, he already get upset over anything and it has change him lots , does any one ...

19. When Is It Time To Say, "Enough"?

    Community Discussion - At what age or life circumstance is it ok to choose to not fight the cancer and have it treated and instead choose to meet the end on your own terms?

20. Does a low blood count mean chemotherapy is still working?

    Community Discussion - Do you know if it is common for doctors to have to "develop" a chemotherapy treatment plan for a patient? I am asking because my mom started on the drug Gemzar two weeks ago. She had one treatment, but due to low blood counts and platelets counts, she has not been able to take another treatment...

21. Just Found Out My Mom Has Brain Cancer.

    Community Discussion - I just found out a few days ago that my mom now has brain cancer, she found out in March that she had lung cancer, she did every chemo and raidation perfect!! 5 weeks raidation M-F and chemo only on Friday.She then had 30% of her lung removed on July 13... and now she is completly healed from that.....

22. Cancer Treatment is Causing My Mom to Hallucinate

    Community Discussion - My mom was diagnoised in Sept. 07 with lung cancer. She had 42 treatments of radiation on her lungs which in turn burned her throat , she had 10 chemo treatments and then they did 24 radiation treatments on her brain. Everything seemed to be going fine but, now it seems that she has lost her memory, or even Alzheimer's has set in...