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  • Recovery - 4 weeks on

    Coddfish
    Tomorrow will be 4 weeks since my last piece of planned treatment, and co-incidentally the anniversary of the mammogram that started it all off. I have had a wide area excision and sentinel node biopsy, 4 rounds of EC chemo, 12 weeks of Paclitaxel, 5...

  • 2022 Year in Review

    Coddfish
    Given it’s the time of year when people produce lists of favourite films, TV shows etc, I thought I would create a list review of my cancer treatment. In the time honoured way of starting with the one I least liked, and moving onto the one I mo...

  • Microwave Ablation of liver lesion

    Coddfish
    I had the final step of my current treatment plan yesterday - a liver biopsy followed by microwave ablation of the lesion.  The consultant interventional radiologist who was going to do the operation wanted me to be in hospital as an in patient ...

  • Nothing to see here

    Coddfish
    Given my recent luck, it’s quite unusual for an investigation to result in there being nothing to be concerned about. Today was my first appointment in the diabetes and endocrinology department for the follow up on my adrenal incidentaloma. It ...

  • Radiotherapy after effects

    Coddfish
    I am grateful that the protocol for breast cancer is now 5 days of treatment - I know people who had 15 days of treatment relatively recently, and people who had 5 or 6 weeks further back in time. Modern linear accelerators are able to deliver h...
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