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My dad finished radiotherapy on his throat in October and this week had his PET scan to see if has gone or has grown else where, he has been asked to go in to see his consultant for the results, is this normal? He is very scared is bad news
Hi I had a double mastectomy 2 years ago, I couldn’t have implants straight away as I got sepsis due to treatment. All my chemo had to stop and couldn’t have the radiotherapy as was in hospital too poorly. The problem is I have the braces gene for an...
Hi. My mum has a sigmoid tumour diagnosed after initial colon CT, full CT and sigmoidoscopy. We have been informed that the a multidisciplinary meeting is being arranged to assess paths moving forward. Lovely mum also has Alzheimer’s and every appointment...
My husband has recently started treatment using the above drugs. He is struggling with acute muscle pain throughout his body and headaches. We’ve been advised to take paracetamol but sadly it’s not enough. He’s not sleeping well which is adding to the...
hi all i have finished my 6 cycles of chemo hodg lymp and am waiting for pet scan possibly first week in feb. just wondering what are the next few steps tyia
Hello Post hysterectomy I was staged as stage 2 grade 1 endometrial cancer. I have just completed 25 radiotherapy sessions and am going to have 2 brachytherapy. I am 53 years old. My question is that before my main investigations started I had a blood...
I've been diagnosed with prostate cancer...wish to treat with alternative means
Hi my mum is on palliative care. I am just getting my head around the prognosis as she was only diagnosed with cancer in October and then informed it's terminal in November 2024. She is slowly declining and can no longer eat. She hasn't eaten food for...
Hello, in December I was re called from my routine mammogram due to a shadow that was found, I had a repeat mammogram and ultrasound, they didn't think it was cancer but as it was indeterminate they wanted to do a biopsy. I had the biopsy and a marker...
Having been confirmed that melanoma is within in the lungs, advise that scans are required and then referred to St Barts for procedure, it was outline that the procedure could be injection's form ever three weeks over a given period with back up scans...
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