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  • Scared and confused!

    Well, the old saying of it will never happen to me just proved itself wrong. Started off, just under two years ago, with leukoplakia. Kept smoking, now t2 floor of mouth cancer.
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  • Mums recent mastectomy

    My mum had a mastectomy last Friday. Mum had her drain out 5 days after her op.Tonight she has a large build up of fluid where her breast was. She has also been suffering with severe headaches. Has anyone got any advice on what to do?
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  • travel insurance

    Can anyone recommend a reasonable travel insurance company? I am hoping to go to Spain at the end of Oct after having treatment for breast cancer. Any suggestions will be gratefully received.
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  • Grandad

    My granddad has been recently diagnosed with lung cancer. This has broken my heart as I am extremely close with my grandparents. My granddad is 82 therefore isn't coping very well. I am struggling on how to talk to him
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  • stage 1a melanoma how long after results to wide excision

    Hi all my daughter has just been diagnosed stage 1a mm,she had the biopsy 8 weeks ago,went back yesterday for 3 more biopsies and when they saw her they where surprised she had not had the wide excision done where the mm had been found,how long is wait
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  • the day our lives changed.

    Wednesday 30th July I got the phone call "your granda has cancer of the liver & its spread to the bowel, theres not much can be done for him, sorry you have to hear this over the phone" how do you deal with news like this??
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  • too much at once

    i want this site to help me to understand other readers stories, my 12 year old daughter had a tumor removed from her left ovary 3 weeks ago, it turned out to be cancer, its rare and it hasn't even got a name for it, it is a hard thing to take in.
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  • nerve damage

    Can anyone help me. I have developed peripheral nerve damage from tax chemo. At the moment I I feel so useless unable to get out of bed as I fear I will fall.
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