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Good morning, My husband has very recently been diagnosed with bladder cancer. At the moment, the cancer hasn't been typed/staged. He had a CT urogram yesterday and has his first TURBT nest week. Apparently, the pictures from the initial cystoscopy...
Hello, wondering if you can help? I am 43 years old and found a lump gor which I was fast tracked for mammogram. Back in September I went for mamo and was told it was a cyst. However they picked up a focal cluster of micro calcification in the other...
Hello i am day 4/5 of 2nd chemo infusion and have bad fatigue and neck and back tenderness. normal? thank you Claire
Hi I’ve been told that silk is best to sleep in for caps or lightly pre tied head scarves for when hair starts to fall out . I can’t find any though and having looked at Amazon there are other sleep caps of different materials with varying reviews . What...
Hi, my dad was diagnosed a few days ago with Leptomeningeal Metastases, cancer of the brain. We are based in Cheltenham Gloucestershire and his consultant at Cheltenham General hospital asked Bristol if he would qualify for gamonite radiotherapy and they...
My mums been given Oral Morphine for her cancer pain and its helping. However, ive read in a number of medical studies that it may cause cancer growth in existing tumours as well as chemoresistance as the studies showed morphine affected the efficiency...
Hello, I am really struggling with depression following my recurrence of cancer a year after treatment. I feel that there is support whilst going through treatment but nothing when you have finished. Is there any support out there for people like me...
Hello, I was given a diagnosis of SLL a year ago, and that diagnosis is still on the most recent letter from the consultant dated 25th August. But I have gone into My MFT and the diagnosis listed on there is Chronic lymphocytic prolymphocytic leukemia...
Stage 4 prostrate contained in the prostrate. I have now had my 28 days on hormone pills and half why through the first injection (one every 6 months) I am not getting hot flushes I am getting the opposite I’m cold most of the time. Also the arthritis...
Hi I’ve had two and a half chemo sessions and every time im ok for 3 or 4 days then I start getting stomach pain I’ve been in hospital 3 times when this happens it was thought to be constipation . I now know that this is not the case as it’s come back...
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