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Life Expectancy of Full Body Bone Cancer Posted: 10-07-07 11:56am
My
grandma has been diagnosed with bone
carcer to the full potential and im am
wondering what amount of time is normal
for paitent with bone cancer to live
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MandMs
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Hi! Posted: 10-08-07 09:29am
Is the bone cancer her primary disease or
is due to cancer that's affecting other
part of her body (metastases)?
Do you know the type (histological type)
of her bone cancer?
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Csines87
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Grandmas Bone Cancer Posted: 10-09-07 17:06pm
well they said that she has it to the full
potential and has multiple.... places that
have the cancer..if that makes any sence
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Csines87
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Grandmas Bone Cancer Posted: 10-09-07 17:07pm
the bone cancer is her primary disease
and it is in the white cells...
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MandMs
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Posted: 10-10-07 02:36am
Hi!
I'm sorry to hear that your grandmother is
suffering from malignant disease to full
potential.
I guess your grandmother has multiple
myeloma, relatively common type of bone
cancer, that begins in the bones, but it
is not usually considered a bone tumor
because it is a tumor of the bone marrow
cells( white cells ) and not of the bone
cells. It is the most common primary
neoplasm of the skeletal system and
affects older people, usuallly over 65
years. Any bone can be involved and the
malignant process spreads in bone marrow
diffusely.
Actually, multiple myeloma is a
progressive blood disease in which white
blood cells( plasma cells, subset of B
lymphocites part of the immune system that
produces antibodies to help fight
infection and disease ) are becoming
malignant( excessive numbers of abnormal
plasma cells in the bone marrow )
There are three stages of this cancer
disease.
Your grandmother is, probably, stage 3
and life expectancy for this phase of
disease is half a year to three years.
How is she?
Is she getting some treatment?
Waiting for your post!
Best wishes!
Marija
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Csines87
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Grandmas Cancer Posted: 11-05-07 20:12pm
hello thanks for the support.. she has
bone cancer actully and its affecting her
white blood cells and her count is now
done to 1... this stuf is really confusing
she keep giving her plasma every day but
its not seem to help.. im confused
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Re: Grandmas Cancer Posted: 11-07-07 04:09am
Csines87
wrote:
hello thanks for the
support.. she has bone cancer actully and
its affecting her white blood cells and
her count is now done to 1... this stuf is
really confusing she keep giving her
plasma every day but its not seem to
help.. im confused
I'm so sorry to hear this. My
grandmother had bone cancer as well. Hers
was in her back and spine, and was very
advanced when she was diagnosed. She
refused treatment, and was gone from us in
less then two months. I don't know much
else about this kind of cancer, as the
only care she received was Hospice.
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MandMs
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Posted: 11-08-07 06:02am
This cancer leads to fatigue and anemia,
painful lesions, calcium abnormalities,
kidney problems and infection caused by
immune deficiency, and bones that can
easily break. Chemotherapy and Stem Cell
Transplants are the treatments of choice.
Your grandmother is getting plasma because
she is anemic.
What kind of treatments she undergoes?
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My
grandma has been diagnosed with bone
carcer to the full potential and im am
wondering what amount of time is normal
for paitent with bone cancer to live
well they said that she has it to the full
potential and has multiple.... places that
have the cancer..if that makes any sence
My
grandmother had bone cancer as well. Hers
was in her back and spine, and was very
advanced when she was diagnosed. She
refused treatment, and was gone from us in
less then two months. I don't know much
else about this kind of cancer, as the
only care she received was Hospice.