{"id":194,"date":"2006-11-10T11:43:33","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T16:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/the-cancer-battle\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T16:40:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T20:40:26","slug":"the-cancer-battle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cancer Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey all.  Yes for some reason that I don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;ve gotten appendiceal cancer at 40.  A stage-4 cancerous tumor was discovered and removed from my ascending colon in October, 2006.  If you get appendiceal cancer that spreads to your peritoneum, you should consider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmpawareness.org\/glossary.htm#IPHC\">CRS with IPHC<\/a>, it&#8217;s the sledgehammer approach to knocking out this cancer.  <\/p>\n<p>Click through the links for a rundown of the battle.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-page-list\"><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/the-initial-news\/\">The Initial News<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/colectomy-surgery\/\">Colectomy Surgery<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/overwhelmed\/\">Overwhelmed<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/weirdfunnygross-stuff\/\">Weird\/Funny\/Gross Stuff<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/out-and-about\/\">Out and About<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/relapse-rest-and-chow-down\/\">Relapse, Rest &#8211; and CHOW DOWN!<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/cancer-treatment-limbo\/\">Cancer Treatment Limbo<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/no-progress-weekend-but-fun\/\">No-progress weekend, but fun!<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/getting-a-clearer-picture\/\">Getting A Clearer Picture<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/wheels-grinding-into-motion\/\">Wheels Grinding Into Motion<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/pet-scan\/\">PET Scan<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/the-cure-for-nausea-is-exercise\/\">The Cure For Nausea Is Exercise<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/more-chemo-and-more-exercise\/\">More chemo and more exercise<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/the-good-week\/\">The Good Week<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/bad-week-not-so-bad\/\">Bad Week, not so bad<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/next-curve-ball\/\">Next Curve Ball<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/a-case-of-ketchup\/\">A Case Of Ketchup<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/pleasure-and-pain-sunshine-and-rain\/\">Pleasure and Pain, Sunshine and Rain<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/good-times\/\">Good Times<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/holding-pattern\/\">Holding Pattern<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/here-we-go-again\/\">Here we go again&#8230;<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/the-final-streeetch\/\">The final stre&#8230;e&#8230;e&#8230;tch&#8230;<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/the-final-relapse\/\">The Final Relapse?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/done-with-it\/\">Done With It!<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/ct-scan-showed-tumor-growth\/\">CT scan showed tumor growth<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/a-clean-scan-and-life-is-good\/\">A clean scan, and life is good!<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/cancer-snuck-into-the-lungs-so-we-sliced-it-out\/\">Cancer snuck into the lungs, so we sliced it out<\/a><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item\"><a class=\"wp-block-pages-list__item__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/lung-drama-tension-release\/\">Lung Drama&#8230; tension, release!<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey all. Yes for some reason that I don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;ve gotten appendiceal cancer at 40. A stage-4 cancerous tumor was discovered and removed from my ascending colon in October, 2006. If you get appendiceal cancer that spreads to your peritoneum, you should consider CRS with IPHC, it&#8217;s the sledgehammer approach to knocking out this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Cancer Battle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":304,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-194","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9M0Zg-38","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":204,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/getting-a-clearer-picture\/","url_meta":{"origin":194,"position":0},"title":"Getting A Clearer Picture","author":"m","date":"November 14, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"November 14, 2006 I couldn't wait any longer, and sent an email directly to Dr. Sugarbaker asking him to allow me to get cytoreductive surgery (CRS). I hope I didn't jump the gun, since I have more information now... It looks like if I have colon cancer (which is more\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Daily Life&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Daily Life","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/daily-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":215,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/next-curve-ball\/","url_meta":{"origin":194,"position":1},"title":"Next Curve Ball","author":"m","date":"December 29, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"December 29 Andrea and I got up at 5am to meet with Dr. Levine at Winston-Salem Medical Center today. The first order of business was a fresh CT scan - man, my insides have been gawked at a lot lately. Then a visit from another doctor (an intern?). 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But it has only been a week since I went to Duke to see poor Dr. Morse - I must have sent him two dozen phone\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Daily Life&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Daily Life","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/daily-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":752,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/cancer-snuck-into-the-lungs-so-we-sliced-it-out\/","url_meta":{"origin":194,"position":4},"title":"Cancer snuck into the lungs, so we sliced it out","author":"m","date":"February 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out the blog post for the details. 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