HD is the most curable of all the lymphomas. Not to say treatment is not tuff. Cancer treatment will make or break you. MOPP/ABV is the most common chemo for...

Hi! I'm a 32 yr old 2x HD survivor. 4 yr remission this Aug. Diagnosed 4B & had BMT in '95 @ Baylor & Medical City in Dallas....

hi<br>i'm a 32 yo chicagoan..i was just diagnosed with HD two days ago. I don't know what stage yet..I'm still recovering from hernia surgery that was done at ...

hi seth, just wondering how you are doing? I know right now you probably are feeling scared/angry/worried, etc.--and that's ok. Please let your family & ...

Just found this club today. Was reading all of the messages. I am 43 years old. Was diagnosed with stage 1A in May 96. Had a port installed and started chemo...

Need info on thymic hyperplasia following chemo for hodgkins. Specifically, does it resolve on its own or is surgery necessary? Thanks...

Hi Seth,<br><br>I am a 33 years old and was diagnosed with HD in May 1999. I staged with HD 4b. I have completd 4 cycles of treatment and yesterday I began ...

Seth,<br><br>In May 99' I was diagnosed with HD 4b. At that time I could not see the light at the end of the tunnel. This week I have been through restaging...

Has anyone out there had surgery to remove a hodgkins tumor? We are really interested in hearing from anyone that has. Also, what do you do about the aching ...

I had the surgery on my neck 3 years ago. The aftermath wasn't nearly as painful as the surgery to implant the port. Also.....I had some Darvocet left over ...

I had the surgery on my neck 3 years ago. The aftermath wasn't nearly as painful as the surgery to implant the port. Also.....I had some Darvocet left over ...

hi mark and melissa, my friend has hd and a mass in her chest but they have told her all along that surgery is not possible for her. sorry i can't help you on...

hi everybody, i am still looking for answers for cheryl. would like some info on the side effects of psct. and if anyone has had lung problems after bleo....

Well, Mark actually had his mass removed because the doctors couldn't tell what it was. They did 3 different biopsies before they decided to do open heart ...

Since I have just been diagnosed with HD yesterday, my HMO automatically assigned a specialist to treat me. Is there anyway for me to find out whether this...

Hello, we are military so we can't really help you out a whole lot with the HMO questions. We can tell you that if you have a good doctor, he will all your...

Thanks for your kind words, advice and encouragements. I will definitely ask to see if my doctor will get other advice for other specialists. <br><br>I didn't...

Well, the doctor's are still not sure whether they will be having him go through radiation or not. <br>He had two tumors also, one in front of his heart, and...

I asked my doctor why some people have both chemo and radiation (like I did) and some only have chemo. She said that different cases and stages have different...

Recently, a couple of you have tried to contact and talk to me while online. I haven't been able to really answer back, because, on every occasion, I have been...

On the advice of our doctor friend in Los Angeles, I did change my original clinic to that of Stanford University Hospital. It took a lot of doing and messing...

How is the program at Stanford, would you recommend this over any other Cancer Center in the Greater SD and LA areas? In the US? Was this a clinical ...

I had a biopsy and they removed three large lymph nodes from under my right arm. The surgery to remove my lymph nodes was a lot worse than the surgery to...

Hi, we haven't been to this website for awhile! Tomorrow (leap day) is mark's last chemo treatment. The doctor's will cat scan him every 3 months thereafter...

Hello, I was just going to let you know that Mark had his last chemo treatment today. His doctors have decided that he will not have any radiation, which was a...

Hello everyone. Hello, I just wanted to tell everyone about a new website known as www.cancercharities.com. The purpose of this website is to raise funds for ...

There's a new message board related to cancer and I guess it could be a very useful and helpful thing for cancer patients if we would all go there and post our...

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