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Cancer Support

Ed Suspicious

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2. Thank you for the response. I really appreciate it.

Reply to YvonneCa (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 22, 2016, 12:10 AM

Jan 2016

She's going to have her kidney and ureter removed. The cancer has not spread to the lymph node so that's good. She seemed a little more at peace with everything this evening. I think not knowing what to expect is nearly as traumatizing mentally for her as the illness itself.

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Mom was just diagnosed with cancer in her kidney. [View all] Ed Suspicious Jan 2016 OP

I am sorry that your mother is going... YvonneCa Jan 2016 #1

Thank you for the response. I really appreciate it. Ed Suspicious Jan 2016 #2

I'm glad she is doing... YvonneCa Jan 2016 #3

The fact that it had not spread to a lymph node is wonderful. If it was confined just Nay Jan 2016 #5

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