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Orangesmokey said:
Found out about two weeks ago that my great Aunt had cancer and they told her she had about 8 months to live. She decided not to do chemo so she could enjoy the last few months of her life. My mom called me last night and she had passed Sunday afternoon. Cancer is such an awful and uncertain thing.
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That it is.
 
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Grand Vol said:
How are things on that front?
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Unbelievable. Her first CA-125 since starting on the new chemo dropped 140 pts, down to 54. That's just unheard of. So we all, without saying it out loud, worried that it was just a fluke thing, even though we definitely celebrated the good news. She went for her next one Sunday, and it had dropped another 20 pts, down to 34. They told her if it keeps going down (she's had three cycles, and she'll have three more to finish this round of chemo) then in three months when she's done, they do a full body CT scan, and if they can't find anything, they'll consider stopping chemo. (They had previously said if they can get her to a "remission state" they may want her to stay on chemo for an additional year.) It is almost hard to comprehend. Tomorrow will be four years since she was diagnosed with stage 1 ovarian cancer. And she's been fighting it ever since.
 
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Orangesmokey said:
Found out about two weeks ago that my great Aunt had cancer and they told her she had about 8 months to live. She decided not to do chemo so she could enjoy the last few months of her life. My mom called me last night and she had passed Sunday afternoon. Cancer is such an awful and uncertain thing.
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Sorry to hear that. My mom already told us that if she were to get cancer with outcome like that, she would not put her energy into chemo. Said she would want all of her children around for a day and have a bunch of chocolate desserts and cheesecake, and look at family photos.
 
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volwindy said:
Sorry to hear that. My mom already told us that if she were to get cancer with outcome like that, she would not put her energy into chemo. Said she would want all of her children around for a day and have a bunch of chocolate desserts and cheesecake, and look at family photos.
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I haven't seen her in years. She was an aunt by marriage and when my great grandmother passed that side of the family kind of lost touch. She was always fun to be around though. Very happy soul. She makes the third person in my family that has passed due to cancer and all three of them smoked heavily.
 
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vollygirl said:
Unbelievable. Her first CA-125 since starting on the new chemo dropped 140 pts, down to 54. That's just unheard of. So we all, without saying it out loud, worried that it was just a fluke thing, even though we definitely celebrated the good news. She went for her next one Sunday, and it had dropped another 20 pts, down to 34. They told her if it keeps going down (she's had three cycles, and she'll have three more to finish this round of chemo) then in three months when she's done, they do a full body CT scan, and if they can't find anything, they'll consider stopping chemo. (They had previously said if they can get her to a "remission state" they may want her to stay on chemo for an additional year.) It is almost hard to comprehend. Tomorrow will be four years since she was diagnosed with stage 1 ovarian cancer. And she's been fighting it ever since.
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Continue to pray for her.
 
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