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  • Surprise phone call today.....

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Thought i would let you all know that i have just had a phone call from my hospital in London (UCHL) with the news that i am to scrap the start of my chemo on Friday and await a phone call from a Professor in abdominal surgery who has looked at my scans/images and has said that he could probably remove my massive tumour. I would then have some chemo later on. He is going to phone me sometime next week to arrange a meeting…

  • No chemo but now Op......

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Thought i would let you all know that i have just had a phone call from my hospital in London (UCHL) with the news that i am to scrap the start of my chemo on Friday and await a phone call from a Professor in abdominal surgery who has looked at my scans/images and has said that he could probably remove my massive tumour. I would then have some chemo later on. He is going to phone me sometime next week to arrange a meeting…

  • :-)

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    Pecantim wrote re: This news has kicked me into touch!
    on Sun, Jun 20 2010 9:12 AM - Delete

    Thanks so much for your comments John. I have not been told i am to have anything with the doxyrubicin but maybe i will. I am to see my specialist just before i am shown around the chemo clinic on Friday, perhaps i will get some sort of prescription as well? I hope i get the same response as you did, any amount of…

  • This news has kicked me into touch!

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    FormerMember

    I received the promised phone call from my specialist at the UCH in London on Wed afternoon. Following their medical meeting, it has been decided that my tumour is too big to operate on at the mo, so i am to start chemotherapy (doxorubicin) on Friday 25th, next week. Wow, now that news has really put me in a different frame of mind. So many questions to ask, i keep logging in here to find my answers, which to a great…

  • My third surgery in as many years.........

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    FormerMember

    Hi everyone. Thought i would write a little update on me. Since Eastertime i have been feeling less well each day. I have been having my regular checks and full body scans but asked for an earlier scan than my next one due in August. It turns out that my pelvic sarcoma has returned and is huge :-( It is pressing on my main nerve that runs down my left leg which is giving me such pain. I have medication for this but it…