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My wife is due to undergo a colonoscopy as a belt and braces measure, having already been diagnosed with inoperable, incurable lung and liver cancer, as something - potentially innocent - showed up in her PET CT scan. The issue is that she is yet to...
Hi my MIL is currently in a care home on palliative care for metastatic small cell lung cancer which has gone to the liver and a thread in the brain ( not quite sure what this means)? She was told by her lung specialist of the confirmation of the...
Hello, I was very recently diagnosed with a rare type of soft tissue sarcoma with good prognosis and whose treatment will most likely consist only of surgery. I have been advised my levator scapulae and trapezious muscles will need to be removed ...
I had surgery for Colon Cancer last year and then finished Chemo at the end of November. I had the usual side effects of fatigue, which I am still suffering from now, but I also have very achy joints, my ankles, knees, shoulders and especially my hips...
Hello, I been diagnosed with HER2 and DCIS in the same breast. I've been informed I must have a mastectomy and have been recommended a bilateral TUG reconstruction with the secondary option of an implant reconstruction. The reconstruction surgeon has...
I've just been discharged from hospital (11/9/24) after 8 days. I've had a radical hysterectomy with lymph nodes removed. Today has been my 1st full day at home and I've struggled with my emotions. Feeling happy one minute, angry the next, bouts of crying...
I was referred for a CT scan after having abdominal symptoms which subsequently turned out to be caused by a pylori bacterial infection so when I actually had the scan all was well. One of the findings was an oval 12mm hyperdense andexal focus on...
I had a CT scan on September 1. This follows on from Colorectal surgery in May 2022. It is part of the follow-up procedure from the nurse specialist team. I thought I would get the result within 2 to 3 weeks, But it seems I may have to wait until my next...
I had a lumpectomy in 2022 and started on letrozole as my lump was oestrogen positive. Since then I struggled with weak muscles and my vaginal prolapse got worse so I had a cystocele and rectocele about a year ago. Then I had to have a uterine polyp removed...
My husband has stage 4 pancreatic cancer also in duodenum and liver . Diagnosed approx 4mths ago . He has become very jaundiced this week and is quite confused particularly late afternoon and evening - I presume thus is the jaundice - is it likely to...
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