Saturday, June 28, 2008

Last Thought for the Day

Most women are often misdiagnosed with Ovarian Cancer when in fact they have some form of PMP. If you do have surgery and they find PMP and want to start chemotherapy ask for a second opinion first.
The chemotherapy makes it harder to do some surgeries if it is PMP of any form. Radiation therapy does not work on PMP, doesn’t do anything to it. PMP is mucus looks like amber colored Jello, not solid. The color for the ribbons of PMP or Cancer of Appendix if we would make them is amber. Really make some time some time to do research or if you can‘t fathom it right now have someone else do it. If you truly think about it, you really need to have a second, third or even fourth opinion. Make sure you take or send all your work up papers with you, x-rays, ct scans, all blood work that was done, tissue samples or slides, pathology reports etc. Most doctors will send them for you or have them ready for you to take. Start you own file, some people get the x-rays or scans originals or copies, some doctors do them on CDs now ask them for your preferred way. I received all the copies of the final reports, path, surgery, x-rays, ct scans, blood etc and put them in a three ring binder, which is getting loaded and have to buy another soon. Take someone with you; some times you don’t hear everything said because you are focusing on what he just said so much information in a short amount of time at his office.
Visit the PMP Information Site, the doctors who specialize in PMP are listed there and there is a wealth of information that is there and added to regularly. If you want you can email me, just hit the link and post.

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