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...undergo hysterectomy do so to treat cancer of the ovaries, uterus or cervix. In such cases, doctors agree that the procedure is necessary. And these patients undergo hysterectomy in its most radical form, which involves removal of the uterus, cervix, the upper part of the vagina and the lymph nodes...
...Gruman: [Laughs] You mean my colored past? Well, when I was 20, I had a Hodgkin's [cancer of the lymph system] diagnosis. I had surgery, chemotherapy and radiation for years. Then when I was 30, I had cervical cancer. When I was 48, I was diagnosed with viral pericarditis [an inflammation of the heart tissue]. One day I was in the gym, the next day in intensive care. When I was 50, my doctor suggested that I get a colonoscopy to screen for colon cancer. So I went, and when I woke up I found out that...
...history of cancer. The doctor says the environment might have caused it. Whatever the reason, she is now preparing for chemotherapy after taking an MRI to check if the cancerous cells have spread to her brain because she has been having blinding headaches, and a test of seven lymph nodes surrounding her lungs for presence of cancerous cells have resulted in the affirmative...
...relieved to hear this that I got teary, as did Seth?s family. Years of clinical experience told me that Seth did not have leukemia. He had no pallor or bruising, his spleen and his lymph nodes weren?t enlarged, and the history of his illness didn?t match. I knew he didn?t have leukemia, but what mattered was that they didn?t. A blood count performed two minutes later alleviated everyone?s fears, and after hugs all around, Seth?s family left the office rather giddily...
...does where you give the chemotherapy make such a difference? Ovarian cancer is unusual in that it often spreads throughout the abdomen but not into the lymph nodes, so it is possible to focus treatment on just one part of the body...