Cancer sucks

**luckyjim** · 30-11-2014, 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by Klondyke

"Break a leg

'tis understood.

cnx37 · 30-11-2014, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by Klondyke

CNX: It will surely not help, but - as "we artists" say when chear up a friend before he jumps on stage - "Break a leg (or neck)".

(not sure whether it is understood in Aussie Language)

No, Klondyke. I have heard the term but have no understanding of its meaning.

Please enlighten me.

**Latindancer** · 30-11-2014, 05:40 PM

Break a leg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

cnx37 · 30-11-2014, 05:46 PM

Originally Posted by Latindancer

Break a leg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And a chock dee to you too.

**Klondyke** · 30-11-2014, 07:26 PM

And for once, leave the cigarettes at home

cnx37 · 30-11-2014, 07:27 PM

Originally Posted by Klondyke

And for once, leave the cigarettes at home

Stopped smoking in 1982!
Stopped drinking alcohol - 1984.

Difference? Why stop?

**bowie** · 01-12-2014, 09:14 AM

Originally Posted by cnx37

Tomorrow, 1 December, hyperbaric chamber therapy commences! Initial program - about 30 sessions.

cnx37, good luck! May the treatment help and provide comfort.

cnx37 · 01-12-2014, 12:49 PM

Originally Posted by bowie

Originally Posted by cnx37

Tomorrow, 1 December, hyperbaric chamber therapy commences! Initial program - about 30 sessions.

cnx37, good luck! May the treatment help and provide comfort.

Thank you, teeruk.

Kick-off time was 9.00am. Punctual - a big surprise. A 2 hour journey with Samsung & TrueView as company. Movie was a Mr Bean one - no sound for me. Daily ticket in CNX is B2400 - so cheap. cf BKK - maybe B6k! OUCH.

Each machine is B6m + oxygen @ 100% is not cheap. Brand name - "Sechrist" - Jesus follower?

I go every day for 20 days initially - not 30 as originally advised. I am a good luck man!

I get to wear special PJs too.

As I am the 1st farang to have HOCT in CNX, I enquired re a photo on the wall with a member of the Royal Family - anyone is excellent.

Say a little prayer for me - this is my last chance to eat real food.

See ya all

Another update later.

**Klondyke** · 01-12-2014, 08:41 PM

Originally Posted by cnx37

Movie was a Mr Bean one

As you have not suffered enough?

Originally Posted by cnx37

I get to wear special PJs too.

PJs??? if underwater, something like this?

**Latindancer** · 02-12-2014, 10:06 AM

Or perhaps this ?

cnx37 · 02-12-2014, 03:02 PM

Latest update - refer to Home Construction - Tips - Nthn Thailand (or something like that).

**S Landreth** · 03-12-2014, 12:00 PM

Breast cancer vaccine shows promise in small clinical trial -- ScienceDaily

Summary: A breast cancer vaccine is safe in patients with metastatic breast cancer, results of an early clinical trial indicate. Preliminary evidence also suggests that the vaccine primed the patients’ immune systems to attack tumor cells and helped slow the cancer’s progression.

The new vaccine causes the body's immune system to home in on a protein called mammaglobin-A, found almost exclusively in breast tissue. The protein's role in healthy tissue is unclear, but breast tumors express it at abnormally high levels, past research has shown.

"Being able to target mammaglobin is exciting because it is expressed broadly in up to 80 percent of breast cancers, but not at meaningful levels in other tissues," said breast cancer surgeon and senior author William E. Gillanders, MD, professor of surgery. "In theory, this means we could treat a large number of breast cancer patients with potentially fewer side effects.

"It's also exciting to see this work progress from identifying the importance of mammaglobin-A, to designing a therapeutic agent, manufacturing it and giving it to patients, all by investigators at Washington University," he added.

The vaccine primes a type of white blood cell, part of the body's adaptive immune system, to seek out and destroy cells with the mammaglobin-A protein. In the smaller proportion of breast cancer patients whose tumors do not produce mammaglobin-A, this vaccine would not be effective.

In the new study, 14 patients with metastatic breast cancer that expressed mammaglobin-A were vaccinated. The Phase 1 trial was designed mainly to assess the vaccine's safety. According to the authors, patients experienced few side effects, reporting eight events classified as mild or moderate, including rash, tenderness at the vaccination site and mild flu-like symptoms. No severe or life-threatening side effects occurred.

Although the trial was designed to test vaccine safety, preliminary evidence indicated the vaccine slowed the cancer's progression, even in patients who tend to have less potent immune systems because of their advanced disease and exposure to chemotherapy.

"Despite the weakened immune systems in these patients, we did observe a biologic response to the vaccine while analyzing immune cells in their blood samples," said Gillanders, who treats patients at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University. "That's very encouraging. We also saw preliminary evidence of improved outcome, with modestly longer progression-free survival."

Of the 14 patients who received the vaccine, about half showed no progression of their cancer one year after receiving the vaccine. In a similar control group of 12 patients who were not vaccinated, about one-fifth showed no cancer progression at the one-year follow-up. Despite the small sample size, this difference is statistically significant.

Based on results of this study, Gillanders and his colleagues are planning a larger clinical trial to test the vaccine in newly diagnosed breast cancer patients, who, in theory, should have more robust immune systems than patients who already have undergone extensive cancer therapy.

"If we give the vaccine to patients at the beginning of treatment, the immune systems should not be compromised like in patients with metastatic disease," Gillanders said. "We also will be able to do more informative immune monitoring than we did in this preliminary trial. Now that we have good evidence that the vaccine is safe, we think testing it in newly diagnosed patients will give us a better idea of the effectiveness of the therapy."

**PeeCoffee** · 03-12-2014, 02:53 PM

Wishing CNX a return to full health.

As I have walked in your shoes on a separate issue I can understand partially what you are thinking.

Keep your chin up. Fight the good fight.

Believe it or not someone is watching over you.

You have been added in prayers.

cnx37 · 03-12-2014, 03:09 PM

PeeCoffee

When I am "free", you owe me one - a coffee that is.

Today, I was a VERY lucky man. 3 shows of Mr Bean -
a) after Xmas sales
b) beginning of school year
c) @ the hospital

Things must be getting better. this afternoon, wifey & I went to Central for about 1 hour. Even had an iced tea @ Black Canyon. I NEVER go to that Starbucks.

I said - put it on PeeCoffee's account. Their response - piss off - he never pays - orders a lot but the other party ALWAYS pays. Please confirm, PeeCoffee.

I just cannot wait to see what tomorrow brings.

**Latindancer** · 03-12-2014, 05:24 PM

Medical researchers have turned their attention to the common cold in their fight against melanoma.
They have found by injecting tumours with the cold virus, cancer cells are being destroyed.
Researchers at Newcastle's Hunter Medical Research Institute found that when injected into a tumour, the cold virus multiplies and attacks cancer cells.

Clinical trials found the new treatment also kick-started the immune system, leading to a double-pronged attack on the tumours.
Melanoma expert Grant McCarthur says the treatment could soon be used alongside surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy in the fight against cancer.
He said: “I could see from these early results that viral therapy could be added to the four mainstays now of cancer treatment to get better outcomes for patients"
While the common cold virus is showing promising results in the fight against melanoma, it is also being trialled to combat lung, bladder and prostate cancers."
Melanoma kills 1500 Australians every year.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/2422...elanoma-fight/

**PeeCoffee** · 04-12-2014, 11:28 AM

CNX, you are quite correct.
Whenever I go to SBUX I am greeted by a couple of employees.
I inquire if the name Howard Shultz (CEO of SBUX) means anything to them.
They replace their smile and return with a blank "haven't got a clue what you are asking" stare towards me.

I explain that I'm conducting a coffee/ barista/ customer service survey on behalf of their Corporate office.
Their blank stares continue as I politely request , "A double-shot vente machiatto. To go, please."

I take a quick sip and a napkin and walk out the door.
Their blank stares continue.

"The other party always pays" at Black Canyon - true.

Today is here and so are you, CNX. The blessing called life.

cnx37 · 04-12-2014, 04:33 PM

Thank you PeeCoffee
Today, another session of hyperbaric.

I am very disappointed on 2 counts -

a) it seems that there is no special photo of me in the "Hyperbaric Hall of Fame".
b) no Mr Bean - some Thai movie - have no recollection thereof.

Big news -

Next session - Monday
I am to bring details of painkillers. It seems that i am the only patient who suffers from "rising pressure syndrome".

Say a little prayer for me?

PeeCoffee - only 1 napkin? I fill my pockets.

**PeeCoffee** · 05-12-2014, 09:12 AM

I like your attitude, CNX.
Attitude is infinitely better than altitude for your current procedure.

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

Re: napkins...don't forget to fill up your pocket with packets of sugar to give to your wifey...she'll just love those packets of sugar ;-)

cnx37 · 05-12-2014, 10:41 AM

During my time in LOS, I have discovered that Thais do not have a sweet tooth.
A cup of coffee requires 10 spoons of sugar ONLY.

There is one reason only why I persist with this procedure. I wish to eat & eat - then eat some more.

PeeCoffee - next time at the hospital, I shall wear trousers with many, many pockets. Do not wish to disappoint wifey. Disappointment to wifey= NO MORE SPANKINGS - LOVE SPANKINGS OFTEN.

**Neverna** · 05-12-2014, 02:56 PM

Originally Posted by cnx37

PeeCoffee - next time at the hospital, I shall wear trousers with many, many pockets. Do not wish to disappoint wifey. Disappointment to wifey= NO MORE SPANKINGS - LOVE SPANKINGS OFTEN.

That's a habit my sister will have nun of.

**PeeCoffee** · 05-12-2014, 08:21 PM

Originally Posted by cnx37

During my time in LOS, I have discovered that Thais do not have a sweet tooth.
A cup of coffee requires 10 spoons of sugar ONLY.
There is one reason only why I persist with this procedure. I wish to eat & eat - then eat some more.
PeeCoffee - next time at the hospital, I shall wear trousers with many, many pockets. Do not wish to disappoint wifey. Disappointment to wifey= NO MORE SPANKINGS - LOVE SPANKINGS OFTEN.

That's the right attitude, CNX - do it for the wifey ;-))

Stay strong as you are receiving prayer from others.
Enjoy the w/e.

**PeeCoffee** · 08-12-2014, 02:44 PM

Good afternoon CNX.

How did today's session in the monkey chamber go for you ?

[ Remember the packets of sugar for wifey ;-) ]

cnx37 · 08-12-2014, 03:06 PM

PeeCoffee
Today - too exciting.
I arrived early - actually in chamber on time. No Mr Bean - some Thai soapy.
1st hour - hurt like hell as usual.
Today, I was DIRECTED to go the CMU Dental Hospital ASAP after hyperbaric = YES SIR!
I arrive - wait > 1hr. It is gin kao time. Everybody has lunch together - Royal decree?
The dentist does not turn up at all! SURPRISE! They did telephone me to come ASAP. Some young "turk" & colleague talk to wifey. I interrupt - talk to me!
OK! Timetable for teeth extraction. After time, they ask - what is your problem?
My response - do you want a smack in the mouth? Oh, cancer.
Yes, after hyperbaric, you will have teeth extraction; stay in hospital & then more hyperbaric.
Please put that in writing, doctor. Dentist says - what are you talking about?

Another very pleasant day in LOS!

**PeeCoffee** · 08-12-2014, 05:05 PM

The wonders of paradise.

Don't get discouraged - humour them.

Explain that you fully understand how things can get screwed up.
"Hey I've done stupid things myself."

If they screw up tell them a funny story...(for example)...
About the time I took some Thais to a great diving site and told them that I would return back to the spot in thirty minutes.
Sorry , since I forgot to check the fuel tanks prior to departing the dock earlier I just noticed that the boat was low on fuel. I said , "Don't worry, I'll return shortly."

When you arrived at the dock your friends told you it was time for lunch and then after you could fill the boat with fuel.
An hour later after lunch you left the dock with your boat full of fuel and returned to the dive site.
Funny, as you didn't see the Thai divers upon your return and they only had one hour of oxygen in their scuba tanks you figured they must have gotten a lift on another boat so you returned to the dock.

That night you watched the news and heard about four Thai divers reported missing by their families.
Darn , that's when you realized the importance of keeping appointments , providing details and following up.

Maybe (just maybe) they'll catch the drift of the conversation.
Just laugh it off as 'shit happens' and smile.

ps: Couldn't hurt to tell SWMBO that you want to be in on conversations with doctors and therapists in the future...gently inform her...(no whips).

pss: enjoy a pleasant night.

cnx37 · 08-12-2014, 06:05 PM

I have tried humour. 100% of the time - what the T57 are you talking about?
Tried the chat with wife stuff - again, as above.

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