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Name: Marjorie Delin
Age: 87
Location: Minnetonka, MN
Diagnosed: January 2004
Diagnosis: Stage IV Bladder Cancer
Conventional Therapy: Surgery January 14, 2004, Lose Dose Chemo
6/9/04--10/05/04 Started Poly-MVA
February 24, 2004 August 2005: Surgery to remove tiny remaining tumor in bladder, all lymph gland tumors shrunk and
inactive. She did not lose her hair although on chemo for 4 months. She believes this is because of Poly-MVA.
Contact Person: Nancy Saslow...
Finding Hope
A cancer survivor shares her journey of triumph
by Lisa Marie Wark
“I woke up and they told me I had an colostomy bag and they told me that I had cancer all in my stomach.”
Those were the haunting words Sheila West-Yorek heard from her doctors at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas in November, 2003. The cancer was a result of new tumors that had grown on her ovaries and metastasized to her stomach. The cruel irony of this is that her once healthy...
Dear Team:
This is my true story. It is documented and verifiable.
Dec. 2001
Diagnosed with Bladder Cancer. Surgery Christmas Eve and again Christmas Day, 4 large papillary tumors removed. Severe post-operative bleeding. Admitted for 6 days St, Joseph West Hospital Clinton TWP, MI. Urologist hoped he had removed all of the cancer.
Pathology showed high grade transitional Cell Carcinoma with Ango-Lymphatic invasion ( Cancer Cells in my Blood Stream ).
Jan. 2002
Biopsies now...
Name: Nancy C. Farley, Ph.D
Date: August 19, 1999
Diagnosis: Bladder Cancer
mailto: nfhaven@comcast.net
LAST UPDATE: January 26, 2007
August 19, 1999
Dear Dr. Sanchez,
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share my journey in fighting this most dreaded disease. I am a 65 year old Psychologist who in 1996 was diagnosed with bladder cancer. A transurethral resection was followed by periodic cystoscopy examinations at Emory Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia. By patient...
Name: Bernie Kanter
Age: 67
Diagnosed: August 2006
Diagnosis: Bladder Cancer
I was diagnosed with bladder cancer in August 2006. I had the usual surgery and treatment for the cancer, which consisted of removal of 2 tumors in the bladder, graded level 1 & 3. I am 67 years old, and this was the first time I ever had any operation of any kind.
After the procedure, the urologist stated there was nothing else for treatment or prevention, but check-ups every 3 months done through...
Name: George E. Holladay, M.D.
Telephone: 940-566-6515
City: Denton
State: Texas
Diagnosis: Transitional Cell in Bladder
Date Poly Started: March 2004
Dosage: 10 cc daily until 2010, now 5cc daily.
My Story:
I have been fighting Bladder cancer since July 4, 1972, with many recurrences. It began as a pediculated squamous cell type and was easily resected. Several more of the same type over the years also were resected.
Then the type of cancer morphed into...