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Hello, My Dad has been diagnosed with Prostate cancer that has spread into his bones & some organs. After 16 months of going back to the doctors with Dad having a sensation of string/ hair coming out of his body & doctors thinking it was an hallucination...
Hia Ok feeling a bit of a fraud but I need to reach out to someone .... I'm a 54 female (who has worked in Oncology most of her life). I had a large Osteoma removed (with clear margins) from my mandible angle in 2018 (benign). A CT Scan in August...
So I have been recently diagnosed with glioma and am due for an operation of Friday November 7 th. I have not been sleeping and was prescribed zopiclone for 14 nights. I am reluctant to use it so I toss and turn. Please advise I am tired is it best to...
Hi, I had a lumpectomy 6 weeks ago; the tumour was close to my nipple, I had to lose the nipple and a decent amount of tissue across the middle of my breast. The wound is healing, although there is still scab in places. My boobs are quite heavy and...
So my mum has cancer and she is struggling really bad to sleep to the point where she is crying she can’t get comfortable or anything is there anything I can do to help her
I've been experiencing soreness and pain in my chest for almost a year now. I recently went to a GP appointment, where they found a 3.5cm lump. I have a mammogram booked for next Monday, after almost 4 weeks of waiting. I'm unsure whether pain is a symptom...
Hello there I am really struggling at the moment with my dad he’s 67 and he’s just been diagnosed with prostate cancer which has spread to his hip and causing extreme pain and also in his spine , this was all shown on a X-ray he’s had bloods so far...
can you give me some info about this cancer as I cannot find it on your website please? My mum has just had a second surgery to remove more of the cancer and her first radiotherapy is on 17 Nov. What will radio treatment plan look like? Anything else...
My 96 year old mother was taken into hospital with Covid. She couldn't breathe and on an inhaler. On the ward they told her she has lung cancer. Heart & Chest doctors would not give her a biopsy and will only offer palliative radiotherapy when mum has...
Looking for a times scale to wait on a mastectomy with reconstruction with pre cancer cells
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