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Medical Oncology
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A 21-year-old member asked:
Dr. Stephen Nogaanswered
Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Pain, loose weight: Anything that has to do with the esophagus..Pain, food not going down or feeling uncomfortable, loosing weight for no reason, indigestion that is real... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
It depends...: An international team has put together guidelines on when patients with myeloma should be treated. Your cancer doctor should be aware of them. There a... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Supportive care Rx: I assume you mean to deal with the side effects. There are many developed over the years. The most successful have been those to combat nausea and vom... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Labs, xrays: There are a series of blood and urine tests that will give the doctor a good idea if you have the disease. These are usually followed by x-rays lookin... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Depends on type: An aggressive lymphoma can actually be cured in many cases but the more slow growing indolent lymphomas have high remission rates but are currently in... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
An infection: Many times hair follicles in places like this get infected and they would be painful, especially with movement. Have a health care professional..You d... Read More
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A 41-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
No: No damage to lungs or anywhere else.
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
It may be hereditary: There is some evidence that pancreatic cancer may occur more in some families. Johns hopkins was doing a study on families with pancreatic cancer wher... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
No.: In general, no. Many times the medicines that are given to prevent allergic reactions like Benadryl (diphenhydramine) can make you drowsy and people m... Read More
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A 30-year-old male asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Hopefully: This is one of the ideas behind targeted therapy. One of the first successful approaches has been in chronic myelogenous leukemia where the abnormal p... Read More
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A 41-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Treat them: Young people with leukemia have the best chance for remission and possibly cure. The treatment is long and involved and involves a lot of health care ... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
No set answer: This is very individual. However, foods with complex smells seem to invoke more nausea. Another trick is if your food is covered with a lid or has jus... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Type and stage: The exact type of lymphoma and where it is found in your body (stage) are the most important aspects in determining what treatment and prognosis you w... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
No data: Your doctor should have reviewed this with you and if not...Require that he/she does.
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A 50-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Yes: But they are expensive and really should be done in conjunction with a genetic counselor since results can be misleading.
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A 24-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
It is possible: Some forms of myeloma secrete a protein called a light chain that can invade organs like the heard or liver and cause it to function poorly. Most of t... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
It is usually not: Usually myeloma doesn't attack the liver but many of the drugs we use to treat it do have effects on the liver. Also, a related type of cancer called ... Read More
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A 42-year-old female asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Place call to doctor: I would go over this on the phone with your doctor. He/she will probably review the mammogram first..Then ask you some questions about your breast...I... Read More
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A 48-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Haven't seen that: Unlike some of the hormonal therapies, Herceptin (trastuzumab) should not cause weight gain except of course if the person is debilitated and the drug... Read More
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A 26-year-old female asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Biopsy: If not already done, one of these masses will need to be sampled to tell exactly what it is.
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A 49-year-old female asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Hard to say: Her doctor must be suspicious about something either in her bladder area or this may be from the reproductive tract as well.
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A 34-year-old female asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Yes it could: But sometimes other imaging studies are needed as well.
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A 52-year-old female asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Unlikely: But there are a lot of reasons for blood in the stool. Certainly colonoscopy is not 100% as well. I am sure your doctor is working through the possibl... Read More
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A 19-year-old female asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
See your doctor: True...This may just be external hemorrhoids but you need to have someone look into it.
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A 28-year-old male asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Chemotherapy related: Pretty typical. Nausea, vomiting low blood counts, infection risk.
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Needs to go back: If she has been vomiting for 2 weeks...The cause must be determined.
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
See your doctor: These could be symptoms brought on by other things including acid reflux (except the migraines).
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Anyone but rarely: Leukemia, although frightening, is a rare disease. Outside of children, many adults do die from the acute disease although this is not the case with t... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Close followup: Both the surgeon, medical oncologist and radiation oncologist must be involved in your followup care. Depending on the stage, you may involve all 3 of... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Fatique, : Hopefully this was reviewed with you, but fatigue is common, low blood counts that can lead to infection, nausea, vomiting, numbness or pain in hands ... Read More
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Means of treatment: In some cases, the best way to treat the disease, especially if it has come back after initial treatment is to use doses of chemotherapy or radiation ... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Pediatric cancer ctr: If your child has acute leukemia, the must be treated at a center which 1) has a major focus on pediatrics 2) which extends to pediatric oncology 3) a... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
White cell cancer: The bone marrow cells that produce granulocytes (needed to fight infections) grow out of control and are present in large numbers in the blood and oth... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Blood cell cancer: Leukemia is cancer of one of the bone marrow cells. The cells start growing quickly and either enter the blood stream where they are first detected or... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Low doses of chemo: Doctors want to capture the anti-tumor effect of the donor's immune cells and they do not need to totally kill all the patient's cancer cells at the t... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
They are very small: These tumors secrete very powerful hormones that have far reaching affects on the body but many times the tumors are so small and also protected in th... Read More
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Disease type: The 2 diseases are closely linked. The hodgkin lymphoma was described by the doctor bearing its name and usually has a specific cell associated with i... Read More
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A 44-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Can be genetiic: Can run in the family but there is an increased incidence with age. That is why a colonoscopy is advocated over the age of 50.
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Broad question: Only your health care team can tell you the risks and benefits for your specifically. This information is derived by reviewing your history, examining... Read More
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Source of stem cells: Originally, scientists thought that only the stem cells from the bone marrow compartment could be used to make new bone marrow. After we learned that ... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
No: There is no relationship between any form of thalasemia and leukemia.
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A 48-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Possibly: There are a lot of reasons for leukopenia. Usually isolated low white cells is not a sign of leukemia if the red blood cells and the platelets also fo... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Depends: Can be cure in the right cases, used along with chemotherapy for cure or palliation and can be used for palliation by itself.
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A 25-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
No: No link at this point.
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Yes: The only difference between men and women here is what is ahead of it in incidence. Breast cancer throws the most commonly occurring cancers off by 1... Read More
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A 50-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Imaging and biopsy: Usually the doctor suspects a major illness based on clinical symptoms: fever, weight loss, night sweats, fatigue...Eventually ct scans are done and t... Read More
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A 27-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
I don't know: It is possible that you have 2 very different cancers lumped together. Melanoma is one form of cancer and lymphoma another. They are quite different. ... Read More
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A 24-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
They start treatment: Everyone moves quickly to start treatment since the chance of remission is high in young people.
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A 26-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Needs a look: A lot of people have non-productive coughs this time of year but adding in the other symptoms makes it worthwhile to see you doctor for a look. If you... Read More
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A 23-year-old member asked:
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Medical Oncology 36 years experience
Many things: Certainly infection of the oral cavity or ears is hight on the list but of course one has to rule out lymphoma, head and neck cancer, as well as some ... Read More
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