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“Lib Bane” is wrong.
Adenocarcinoma of the colon rarely goes to bones or brain.
It goes to lymph nodes, liver, and lungs.
People near death lose weight and are bedridden.
They are usually not conscious when they die.
Been there a couple thousand times.

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There are many different kinds of cancer and they all need different types of treatment. Men usually don’t develop prostate cancer until they are over the age of 45 but there are exceptions. Breast cancer strikes women as almost any age and is thought to be hormone related. There’s presently a big controversy over when women should get a mammogram to detect breast cancer but IMO the sooner the better since it can be very deadly. Prostate cancer is a slow growing cancer inmost cases but still there’s the exceptions.

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My niece owns her own store and she always donates 10% to cancer research. Especially breast cancer since she’s a survivor. However, she uses the pink ribbon which is the American Cancer Society’s logo. So anyone using that, has to have permission. If they are selling products and telling you they are for cancer research but you see no evidence of it, don’t go there and report them because they are falsely advertising. They have no right selling breast cancer bracelets without the permission of the ACS. Check it out. Something is fishy there.

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Chronic pancreatitis may be a risk factor for pancreatic cancer. Chronic pancreatitis is often a result of alcoholism. However alcoholism has not been identified as a direct cause of pancreatic cancer. Cigarette smoking is a risk factor.

Here is some info on the risk factors for pancreatic cancer:
http://pathology.jhu.edu/pancreas/BasicRisk.php?area=ba

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Please go. I was your age when I started having symptoms, and only 20 when I was diagnosed. I avoided going to the doctor for so long because I was too embarrassed, and I ended up being forced to go when I was in so much pain. By that stage it was advanced.

So please just go and forget about the embarrassment factor. Doctors see everything, so they will be used to it.

But pls listen to this carefully. It is most likely, that because of your age, you will be fobbed off, and they will say it’s nothing. If they say it is hemorrhoids, ask for medication for it, and if after a couple of weeks you still have those symptoms, go back, and keep going back until they know what the problem is and it is resolved. The only reason I kept going back is because of the pain, and each time I was told something different, until eventually they did tests.

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This might sound extremely silly to some who read it, but I lost my father to another type of cancer when I was only 6 years old in 1968. While they looked nothing alike I made a substitute father for myself in my imagination and that man was Michael Landon. I watched Bonanza until it went off the air, followed that with Little House and from there Highway To Heaven. Like my father, he was kind, giving, loving and just a down to earth decent person and also like my father he suffered through and survived a horrific youth. Both took that and instead of feeling sorry for themselves, they made their dreams come true (my father was a doctor, Michael Landon a high school and college athlete before becoming an actor). My children were at their grandmother’s, my husband was at work and I was coming down the stairs with a basket of laundry when I heard on the news that Michael Landon had passed away on July 1, 1991. I sat on those on stairs and wept without shame for hours, because I’d just lost my father all over again. I’ll never forget the date of either’s death and I miss them both to this day.

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Every young woman gets lumps in her breasts at some point or another. This is very normal.

Check out these sites for information directed at teens regarding breast lumps.

“At puberty it is much more likely that your hard, painful lumps are simple cysts that can occur due to the hormone changes related to your menstrual cycle. These harmless cysts will usually get smaller after your period and resolve by themselves within several months. If they do not get smaller and go away within 3 months, then make an appointment with your doctor for a checkup. Don’t hesitate to ask your health provider any questions you have about the lumps or any other concerns about your growth and development.”

http://www.teengrowth.com/index.cfm?action=info_advice&ID_Advice=48955&category=body&catdesc=Body&subdesc=Breast

“Lumpy breasts are very common in girls and women. In most cases, breast lumps are not a sign of breast cancer. Teenagers, both girls and boys, will often feel a lump called an “adolescent nodule.” An adolescent nodule is a sore, swollen spot just under the nipple that will go away without any medical intervention. Although breast cancer is very rare in teens, anytime you feel a lump it’s a good idea to have it checked by your health care provider.”

http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/breasthealth/l/aa042402a.htm

” If you have not yet had your first period, then the lump could be a breast “bud” that marks the beginning of puberty. Breast buds keep growing and develop into full breasts over several years. If you have already started your periods, then a lump in the breast is usually a simple cyst. This is a breast duct that has temporarily plugged up with fluid, and it will resolve by itself in two or three months. A cyst may be painful, but it is harmless. Occasionally a breast lump will be a mass of solid fibrous tissue called a “fibroadenoma,” which is also benign (harmless), but it may not go away by itself. We recommend that you have the breast lump checked by your doctor. Depending on the size and feel of it, your doctor may decide to observe it over a couple of months to see if it goes away. If it lasts more that three months, then you may need further evaluation (such as an ultrasound test or an aspiration of the fluid.) In any case, rest assured that almost all breast lumps in teenagers are harmless. Breast cancer almost never occurs in teenagers.”

http://www.teengrowth.com/index.cfm?action=info_article&ID_article=1320&category=body&catdesc=Body&subdesc=Breast

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None.

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The median survival with treatment is 2-2.5 years.
The 5 year survival rate is 5%.

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DeniseDDS and Tarkarri have good answers and reasonable guesses, but this is always a guess.
Whatever guess even knowledgeable medical people may make will be wrong.
You do not know what stage she is, so Denise has to guess at that.
These questions asking us to predict the future are human nature.
Many of us want to know the future. We cannot ever know the future.
If you think about it, you might not want to know the future.
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I saw one person – who would not allow any treatment – live for over five years with a huge primary breast cancer that had broken through the skin of the breast, became infected, was a painful fungating malodorous mass, and yet she would allow no surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy. She had no money and no insurance. I saw her at no charge and provided her with comfort medications at my own expense. Nice person, but I could never talk her into allowing any real treatment. She was still alive and ambulatory when I retired from medical practice.
This is just one anecdotal case, but it shows that anything may be possible.
Cancers follow no rules.
This was the only person – out of many many hundreds of breast cancer patients I saw – who I could not talk into trying some form of breast cancer treatment.