What the UTUC!

  • My wife, my brother and a doctor walked into a bar..........

    Ah!  The good old three people walked into a bar joke....... So before you consider me frivolous, or inconsiderate, on starting with a joke line on a cancer blog, let me elaborate. When delivering a joke, there are key fundamentals to communicat...
  • UTUC Symptoms - It wasn't the Ribena Berries!!!!!

    Is it a general human trait that we can excuse or pass off symptoms as something else?  Is it an auto denial response, or a fear of a symptom being something more sinister?  Or maybe it is an alpha male issue.  (But girls - even for al...
  • Never quit quitting.......

    Yes, I am a smoker..........or was! I was advised that I should stop smoking to enhance my recovery after surgery.  It is advisable to quit smoking at any time, but for those of you that smoke, or used to smoke, it is a difficult thing to do. It...
  • Motivation and Emotions

    I lived just by the London marathon route and, due to the road closures, there were only two choices for the day of the marathon - stay in, or go down to cheer the runners armed with bags of jelly babies.  On one particular year while I was on t...
  • Welcome to What the UTUC

    Today I joined the Online Community at MacMillan Cancer Support. I have just recently been diagnosed with Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma - that rare 1% of upper urinary tract cancers.  Being in a rare and small group means a number of things: ...