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Good morning My 80 year old husband has a small (3cm) cancer in his bowel with no spread so far however due to other illnesses he is unable to have any treatment. He has an enlarged heart, diabetes and slight kidney failure and he has had discussions...
Hi I was diagnosed with oestrogen positive breast cancer in Oct 2020. It was graded stage 2 initially but at the time they thought it was 24mm it turned out to be 49mm. It had gone into 2 of the 12 nodes they removed. I had 2 lumpectomy (as the first...
Hi I have been diagnosed with secondary breast cancer (liver) and wonder why I have been offered targeted therapy and not chemotherapy like last time. I had a mastectomy, chemo & radiotherapy 4 years ago and now have been offered targeted therapy. I...
My mum is getting depression and despondent with cancer that isn't getting worse. She won't eat much but it's also complaining no one putting food in front of her to eat because she's too tired to make it. Yet her appetite is not great. She is almost...
Hi , my partner had thyroid cancer and had his thyroid removed a year and a half a go , he was experiencing some pains in his ears so he had an ultra sound scan , which the results showed a suspicious lymph node , actually 3 , but they aren't big enough...
I’m due to come of letrozole after taking it for 10 years. I'm so scared. how can I check the cancer isent coming back. how can I actively protect myself. I had HER2 + breast cancer in 2012. I had surgery chemo radio biological therapy and Letrozole...
Hello i hope you can help I’ve have recently had a groin lymph node biopsy the results came back positive for SCC ( at present they are unaware of the primary site) . When told the biopsy result they didn’t give a grade and I didn’t ask. Are they able...
Hello, I’m due to start my radiotherapy 5 weeks after lumpectomy and sentinel node biopsy for 20mm invasive ductal breast cancer. My wounds have healed well and the hard lump in my breast ( seroma ? ) is beginning to soften. over the last few days I...
Following surgery in April this year and radiotherapy which finished in June I have developed an aching in my breast. I’m sure I read somewhere that this is a normal reaction but I didn’t expect it to occur so long after the treatment ended. Anyone else...
Is there any thing that can relieve the pains in my fingers and feet from neuropathy or any creams I can use . thanks
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