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mlarson428 posted an update in the group Multiple Primary: 1 month, 1 week ago · View
An interesting concept I think about is survivorship…cancer patients celebrate how many years they have survived. I was diagnosed with two primary cancers in 2009. The first is NHL, since not curable and since it is a ”blood cancer, some call it ”liquid tumors” I celebrate date from diagnosis. My second cancer is GIST, solid tumor in small intestine, surgically removed. So my survivior date for this is the date of surgery. Are others having similar thoughts?? Unsure how many of us are out there??
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mlarson428 joined the group Multiple Primary 1 month, 1 week ago · View
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charles joined the group Multiple Primary 1 month, 2 weeks ago · View
There is already a topic created about survival date, you can read many thoughtful opinions on this…
http://cancerconnect.com/communities/survivorship/forum/topic/when-are-you-officially-considered-a-survivor/?topic_page=1&num=15
as this is called multiple primaries, my mum was initially diagnosed with NSCLC staged IIIA, after receiving chemotherapy – cisplatinum and navelbine – with unfinished 3rd cycle and radiation therapy, the follow-up PET scan discoved bone cancer which I found out later could be the result of the cisplatinum received chemo…since we have no proof of this, we actually don´t know whether the tumour in her L4 vertebrae was there alonside with the tumour in her left lung and the docs can´t say either, since the CT scan finished just above the later discovered site…so far it´s the two, and we hope it stops spreading and growing…wish all of you down here dancing with NED…