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Hi. Could you please let me know regarding the long term side effects of full lymph node removal other than lymphoedema? For background last year I had a local recurrence of breast cancer. I had a left side mastectomy and implant reconstruction in the...
I am a 36 year old woman and my father, aged 60, is suffering with bowel cancer. He had a cancerous tumour removed 2 years ago and he was left with a temporary stoma. 2 years later we believe his cancer is now metastatic and is blocking / has damaged...
Hi there, I am almost 6 years post treatment for Breast cancer, I was diagnosed at 33. I had fertility preservation and have eggs in storage. I got married 6 months ago and we are interested in finding out about starting the process to conceive. Does...
Hi, I'm very worried and concerned that my dad's cancer may have returned. My dad was diagnosed with lung cancer 4 years ago. He had 20 rounds of radiotheraphy. All previous scans have came back fine. He recently had 2 CT scans. Today a nurse called him...
I was diagnosed with Triple Negative breast cancer in Dec 2018. I had surgery followed by chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Annual mammograms have been clear since then. Over the past week I have noticed a quite extensive redness on the underside of the...
Hello, my auntie is in the middle of chemo for stage 3 ovarian cancer. She had a scan halfway through which showed a big drop in her ca125 level but the tumour has not shrunk. I don’t know if we’re setting ourselves high expectations but we were expecting...
Hi, I have recently had my Pap smear back as positive with low grade dyskaryosis and HPV cells, I’m really anxious about this and I feel like I have an STD I feel dirty which I know is wrong! I’m so nervous that my colposcopy will be painful and find...
Hi, I'm just getting over a bladder cancer diagnosis from March. I found a 4mm 'slightly darker than skin coloured' (not black) lump/nodule/wart on my breast and my doctor looked at it, with a lens, not sure if it was a dermascope. He said that he isn...
Recently had a left breast mastectomy, been doing exercises for over a week now but this morning I as I was doing them I felt as though my wound inside had ripped. Not noticed any bleeding as of yet but just wondering if this is a normal sensation and...
Hello please can you tell me why on the pages of the Lymphoma Action booklet it says that early stage MCL is treated with Radiotherapy with a hope of curing it but I haven’t been offered this? I have low grade low risk indolent MCL in my neck with two...
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