Keep hope alive, living with secondary cancer 5 years on On December 2005 I was told I had cervical cancer stage 3B . My treatment was 20 sessions radiation over a 4 week period at 10 minute a day. 17 hours of radium rods. And 6 weeks of chemotherapy the drug I was on was called Cisplatin. I had pain in my lower back ,the consultant told me that due to the amount radiation I received .I had small fractures in my sacrum and I then had a procedure called somentolplast (a type of plaster in the fractures to mend them). 2 years past 2008 the cancer came back and spread to my middle lob of my right lung. The consultant said the cancer was now secondary. The treatment I got was the middle part of my right lung removed and 6 months of chemotherapy at 3 weeks apart. The medication I was on was called Cisplatin and Taxol Now 2011 I am in remission from secondary cancer. Sins having cancer I have always had pain in my neck, back, legs ,lungs and feet . Always trying to fight it . I have never been one for staying off work, I even went back to work 4 weeks after having the middle lob of my right lung removed . I am on so many pain killers just to get by. The moral or this story is if I can get though this every day so can you to. Teresa xx
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