I’ve been meaning to do this, but needed to learn how to use Google Drive! I’m a college professor and have avoided it up until now, though I know it’s supposed to be a great thing, and maybe even supposed to help me keep from paying for Office?
I wanted to share the webinars another advocate, Jennifer Ranker shared with me. Jennifer Ranker is also a cancer survivor (I believe colon cancer) treated by Dr. Sardi. Those with colon cancer who have had the cancer spread into their abdomen can also be treated with cytoreduction surgery and HIPEC, the same treatment as for appendix cancer. This treatment is also now being used for other cancers that spread into the abdomen, like ovarian cancer. She also has a private Facebook support group, Peri-Met-Tropolis. She has done Zoom webinars with Dr. Sardi as I was hoping to do, so Dr. Sardi put me in touch with her since I am now doing Zoom support groups.
I am attaching two of the webinars she has already done that she told me I could share with my constituents. They are very good. Since I want to do this also, she is talking about she and I working together to do another with both of us getting questions from patients. We have both already started doing this.
Please send me any questions you have, and enjoy the webinars! Would love to hear your feedback! Dr. Gushchin is an excellent specialist also. Dr. Sardi said if he needed cytoreduction surgery, Dr. Gushchin would be his surgeon. Please let me know if you have any problems. I just learned how to retrieve and share from Google Drive :-). These webinars offer excellent information!
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Hope these are helpful to you! And thank you to Jennifer!
Carolyn
Thank you so much, Carolyn and Debbie. Hi, Debbie! I finally had a chance to watch both webinars. Thank you so much. It was very, very informative. I have a very important question. In July, 2019,I had surgery for an appendectomy, which turned out to be more complicated and I had Appendiceal Mucinous Adenocarcinoma Stage 4 involving the Lymph Nodes. I then had 3 Cycles of Chemo before finding a website for Appendiceal Cancer and finding Dr. Sardi. I did have CTR/HIPEC with Dr. Sardi, Nov 7, 2019. I was told after HIPEC, I was no longer a candidate for Chemo, since all my bloodwork had crashed and I became very anemic. Meanwhile, I went to physical therapy from March to August 2020 and was feeling strong again. I wanted to be like Debbie and survive this. Six months after HIPEC, something was found in my lung. By August it had doubled in size. On October 9, I had lung surgery to remove the Appendiceal Mucinous Adenocarcinoma that had traveled there. I truly feel all alone in this in that there seems to be no cure for me. That it will just continue to go to other places in my body. After 3 surgeries within about a year, I am very depressed but hopeful for an answer. My question: “Is there any hope or cure for patients who have Appendiceal Mucinous Adenocarcinoma Stage 4 involving Lymph Nodes? Or do we have live with the knowledge that it is just a matter of time; and our time on Earth is quite limited?” Thinking that it will just continue to spread or that I will need one surgery after another is quite heart-breaking. Thank you both for sharing this. Fran
How do questions get answered on here? Thanks
can you get a second opinion if you already had surgery ?