#seminoma

[rhythmrender]

SURGERY TOMORROW

Picking up my mother today so I may be pretty scarce a while. I will make sure to post updates once able 💚

The donations reached enough to cover the surgery so all donations received now will be going towards bills, medication, and food during recovery.

Thank y'all so very much for all the support and love 💚💚💚

Tumor Trouble, organized by Atem Morrel

Howdy y'all!  In 2018, I had gotten tumors removed from my lower stomach and have been happily on the mend… Atem Morrel needs your support

[cancer-researcher]

[elconejomagico]

Hace #2años me estaban quitando un #seminoma (tumor testicular). Hoy llevo dos años de decir #fuckcancer. Hace 2 años me baje de los escenarios cuando apenas empezaba a hacer #standupcomedy. Hoy no me quiero bajar nunca, solo quiero hacer #reír al bello público de @manadapesadacomedy. https://www.instagram.com/p/BnzeTdgBZDi/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=p695ww0zj808

[rogrogrog]

I'm going back to the start.

Coldplay

[pathologycloud]

40 years old male patient with testicular mass, the patient underwent radical orchidectomy and this is a smear from the tumor. you can see here the typical features of the germ cell tumor Seminoma classical variant, which are : 

- highly cellular smears 

- multiple bizarre nucleoli seen in side the nuclei 

-infiltrating reactive lymphocytes " smaller and darker in color "

[radoncnews]

Single dose of carboplatin is not inferior to radiotherapy in Stage I seminoma

Stage I seminoma is the most common testicular germ cell tumor; Radiotherapy used to play a central role in the treatment of this highly curable malignancy. Treatment strategies after orchiectomie now are surveillance, adjuvant radiotherapy or chemotherapy (carboplatin);

  To compare the latter two strategies, a non-inferiority trial has been conducted; almost 1500 patients were randomly assigned to either a single dose carboplatin (AUC7) infusion or radiotherapy (20-30 Gy).

Oliver and colleagues now present the 6,5 year follow-up data of this trial confirming the non-inferiority of carboplatin to radiation therapy; relapse-free survival was comparable in both groups (Chx 95% vs RT 96%); In the chemotherapy group, less side-effects have been reported. Interestingly, the use of carboplatin also reduced the risk of contralateral germ cell tumors.

  In conclusion, adjuvant chemotherapy is a valid alternative to adjuvant radiotherapy in stage I seminoma.

  In the recent guidelines by the European germ cell consensus group, surveillance is recommended in most (low risk) cases as 88% of the patients are cured by orchiectomie alone. In case of a relapse, rates of curation are still high.

    Links:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21282539 (Article)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18191324 (European Guideline by Consensus Group)

  By CMai

                                               #seminoma #radiotherapy          #chemotherapy       #LMU

[bohbstcblog]

6 Weeks Post Treatment: Update

Hi there, just checking in to let you know how i'm doing.  I'll post a pic as well so you can see how pretty I am.  but today i'd say is one of the first days that i've felt like I have full coverage of hair and look like someone who made a bad decision at Supercuts as opposed to a medical experiment in recovery.  so that's nice.

I still have a lot of circulation issues and my hands/arms fall asleep very easily.  my hands have started behaving normally again, which is great. 

i have to admit, I don't think about cancer much.  mostly when I see someone I haven't seen in a while and I have to update them on how i'm doing.  but my brain has definitely moved on.

[bohbstcblog]

3 weeks post treatment

so, it's been 3 weeks since my last treatment and here's how things are going.

Hair:  I've got this light very blonde/white spikes of little hairs growing all over my head.  I think the is still pre-hair from my real hair that will grow in, but it's a good sign since I seem to have full coverage.  it looks like a glowing hair halo.

Energy:  it's hard to tell if I have less energy due to chemo recovery or just from being so horribly out of shape.  but i've been trying to exercise again and it's slow going.  i've complained a lot in this blog about my weight gain (15-20lbs) so with that extra spare tire and my lapse in exercise it could also be that.  but i feel good levels of energy until I challenge myself with exercise or anything really taxing (manual labor) then I feel like a wuss.

peripheral neuropathy:  yeah, it's some complicated strange side effect that didn't kick in until my last couple weeks of chemo.  but whatever they say it is, it feels exactly like when your arm or leg 'falls asleep' like a blood circulation thing.  but it happens all the time.  overnight, when I ride my motorcycle, sitting at my desk at work.  my fingers/hands get it most where I lose all feeling and get that 'tingly' feeling when I move them or clap my hands together to get feeling back.  it's strange.  Dr says this could last 6 months!