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  • Forum Post: Cancer patients and the feeling of 'Otherness'

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    Posted 3 months ago
    My name is Alex Reitemeier, I'm a psychology student at Nottingham Trent University doing some research into cancer. I want to find out if other people's reactions to a person's cancer shapes and changes their self-perception. I have emailed and received permission form the Macmillan...

  • Blog Post: Where it all began ..........

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    Posted 5 months ago
    As I'm a few months down the road on my cancer journey, I will fill in the gaps prior to today. I so wish that I had started this earlier as my friends suggested! I am 54 years young, with three grown up children. On Monday 3rd September 2012, I visited my GP, with concerns about a breast...

  • Forum Post: Mum diagnosed with ductal carcinoma

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    Posted 6 months ago
    The past few weeks have been a total whirlwind, mum went for her mammogram and it came back that there was something there. She went for a biopsy and that lead onto a lumpectomy and removal of lymph nodes. From this they discovered that mum had ductal carcinoma (grade 3) so it was very aggressive. But...

  • Forum Post: mum's operation tomorrow

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    Posted 9 months ago
    Hi everyone, just joined this morning,and thought i would share with everyone my mums story. she was diagnosed with advanced oral cancer,under 2 weeks ago. as a result of her finally going to hospital after me nagging for ages, as she had a lump with what we first was an abcess,under a tooth in the bottom...

  • Forum Post: 10,000 deprived of cancer treatment

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    Posted 11 months ago
    I Picked this piece article up recently in the Sunday Expess and you should read this via these links . www.express.co.uk/posts/view/322727/10-000-deprived-of-cancer-treatment www.express.co.uk/posts/view/322725/Fears-over-900-caught-in-hospital-data-gaffeI I think it may provoke some good discussion...

  • Forum Post: Re: radiotherapy

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    Hi Trish, Firstly, let me say how sorry I am that you have had cause to join our numbers; I was in your position back in the summer myself. I had my hysterectomy at the end of July and was told upon discharge that they felt they had caught it fairly early but would recommend RT as the tumor had invaded...

  • Forum Post: It's back with a vengenace

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    Posted over 2 years ago
    I haven't posted for ages. I won't bore you with details here (but have updated profile). Hubby's OC is back (4cm but no apparent spread 'scope showed) and begins chemo (3rd time lucky...) on Monday (31st), docetaxol this time; oncologist has said it's palliative but hubby says "it...

  • Forum Post: Bladder cancer following Prostate cancer

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    Posted over 2 years ago
    Hello, I'm back again! Just when I thought all was under control ... In March 2011, I stopped taking my Bicalutamide for good, i.e. exactly two years after completing my radiotherapy for my prostate cancer. PSA test results have all been very good so far. However, at my last check-up, I mentioned...

  • Blog Post: Life is a rollercoaster ...

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    Posted over 3 years ago
    You know ... I used to say “ if only I could have a pound for every compliment I receive for them red shoes.” However, over the last few weeks it would be for each time someone has said to me “Go sh ... doesn't time fly ... where did that year go ...? ” These comments have...

  • Blog Post: Simply red ...

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    Posted over 3 years ago
    My mother died 14 years ago, aged 53, of ovarian cancer. She had been diagnosed five years before ... but to be truthful the cancer had probably been there since her early forties, when she was a similar age to me. For a year or two they had said she was peri-menopausal and by the time they realised...

  • Blog Post: You are one in a million ...

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    Posted over 3 years ago
    Well, actually I am not one in a million ... I am one in 28 million. What I am not sure about is whether that makes me more or less special ....? Last weekend saw the end of the Tour de France. Yes, I know what you are saying. “ Tour de France?! What is she on? " That it is up there with my...

  • Blog Post: Mums Scan Results Following Radiotherapy

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    Posted over 3 years ago
    8 weeks ago our world fell apart, mum was diagnosed with a squamos non small cell lung cancer, about the size of a mobile phone, in the pleural part of her left lung....3 months prior she sarted losing weight, suffering from fatigue etc, in quite severe pain......I cant describe how I felt (well not...

  • Forum Post: Encouraging news when OC surgery impossible

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    Posted over 3 years ago
    I haven't posted for a while but thought I would share some news that I hope will give encouragement to those who, like my husband, cannot have the surgery (see my earlier blogs/posts). It's a year this month since diagnosis. Radical radiochemo finished end this Feb & a subsequent CT was...

  • Forum Post: Re: radical radiochemo aftermath :(

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    Posted over 3 years ago
    Thanks for your thoughts Crystal, Steve & Charlotte. Thanks for the Christie link; true it didn't tell me anything we didn't know but it was kinda comforting to read that all Philip's side effects are known and usual. In the cool of the evening (a song coming on?) I know that, compared...
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