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I had surgery in early 2004 for what was thought to be a lung infection. During the operation a cancerous lymph node was found on my heart and needle biopsied (hindshight tells us it should probably have been removed instead.) I was later diagnosed with non Hodgkin's with tumours in my chest cavity and both lungs all inoperable. I declined all traditional treatment ...

"I am a 46yo (white) female, I have been checking statistics for stomach cancer and I do see as a female and with my race the odds are very low, and my doc says don't worry,but I feel like crap, so heres my story. For the last 2 months I have been getting stomach "pain" constant,more uncomfortable than pain,along with a feeling of "fullness" sometimes with a sense ...

Is chemo no longer an option for him?  Can they remove those lymph nodes?  

I’ve read your message and like to respond as well as I can.  My love had stomach cancer which was detected due to an anemic condition after some tests confirmed the grim prognosis of stomach cancer (stage four).  He proceeded with the suggested prior chemotherapy.  After two sessions of chemotherapy he became violently ill and declined further chemotherapy and...

Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!  Love to hear about people beating cancer. Did you have surgery??  Or just chemo?  

After diagnosis of stage IV stomach cancer, I had evidence of mets to my lungs that was larger after one scan and then it was gone after another scan and it turns out that it was something else, not cancer after all. This can happen. Jeanne On 9/29/2009 ataloss wrote: hi everyone, my mom underwent a total gasrectomy back in march, and everything was going...

  On 9/24/2009 2caret wrote: Yesterday my husband had a scan after 2 rounds of a clinical trial. The news was not good. I dont know what to do or think. There was more cancer fluid in the abdominal cavity and now there was fluid in the right lung and a lymphnode on his chest that has significantly grown. The fluid in the lung will be drained tomorrow and sent...