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Vital Info

Name:
Mike (mike1954)

Member Since:
June 28, 2009

Location:
Marshall, Texas

Birthday:
3/7/54

Profile:
Cancer Survivor

Cancer Info

Type of Cancer:
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer:
Diffuse large B cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Diagnosis Date:
February 2009

Stage of Cancer:
Stage 3

Lymph Node Involvement:
Yes

Surgery:
Lymph Node Removal

What I Hate Most About Cancer:
not knowing the outcome of treatments

What I Have Learned From Cancer:
to be patient

Things My Supporters Can Do To Help:
remember me in your prayers

Alternative Cancer Treatment:
none

Cancer Drugs Positives & Negatives:
R-Chop, Neulesta back pain has gone away, nausea remains

Metastasized? Where?:
none discovered yet

Cancer Symptoms:
night sweats, back pain, fever, weight loss

At the time of diagnosis I didn’t realize these were symptoms, didn’t consider the important.

Surgery Description, Dates & Side Effects:
lymph node removal for biopsy (2) bone marrow biopsy, installation of a port a cath.

Radiation Description, Dates & Side Effects:

not part of treatment

Chemotherapy Description, Dates & Side Effects:
R-Chop, eight sessions
one every 3 or 4 weeks,
side effects, nausea, loss of appetite, some muscle aches

Biography

Diagnosed in February 2009 by accident. Went to see the gastroenterologist to set up a preventive colonoscopy. His routine exam of my abdomen found organs out of position causing him to order a ct scan, this suggested lymphoma, a subsequent biopsy confirmed it.

Cancer Symptoms

night sweats, back pain, fever, weight loss

At the time of diagnosis I didn’t realize these were symptoms, didn’t consider the important.

Surgery Description, Dates & Side Effects

lymph node removal for biopsy (2) bone marrow biopsy, installation of a port a cath.

Radiation Description, Dates & Side Effects

not part of treatment

Chemotherapy Description, Dates & Side Effects

R-Chop, eight sessions
one every 3 or 4 weeks,
side effects, nausea, loss of appetite, some muscle aches

Comments:

Mike,
thank you for your welcome! We are close as I see you are in Marshall, I do not if I posted Tyler or not on my page:). I just moved here so that my wonderful parents have the pleasure of taking care of me where they have a better support system. I have friends here in TX since this is where I went to college, and I hated Memphis other than my job and friends, but after two full years of my parents being with me in Memphis it was time to let go and move forward…

Posted on January 14, 2010 at 4:16:50 PM by roses4friends

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