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I've been diagnosed with 60mm DCIS. I've had one excision which did not result in clear margins. My surgeon has given me the choice of a further excision, which he says only has 50% chance of successfully removing all the diseased tissue, followed by...
Hi I had lumpectomy for stage 2 cancer on 29 September, followed by 15 lots of radiotherapy which i finished on 12th December. I am taking Letrozole too. I have developed a hacking cough which I think is viral but I have never felt so exhausted in...
Hi! just wanted to ask is it normal to have pain when you press under the arm/mastectomy scar tissue after 1.5 years of surgery? sometimes also have pain when I lift the arm up under the armpit thank you
I just don't know what this means. My urea was above the range as well at 9.3. I eat well, am not malnourished. Waiting till Friday for surgery results. I think we all have an impatience about treatment. Just wanting to crack on with it. My alkaline phosphatase...
Hello, my dad has recently been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer no treatment is available to him as it’s too advanced, however he can have prembo and is now on his 3rd cycle this week. he also has secondary cancer in his bones and it’s spread to...
Hello my mum has recently been diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer , luckily it was caught early . I understand that triple negative breast cancer can some times be caused by the BRCA gene or other genes. mum is now undergoing genetic testing...
After being diagnosed with Infiltrating Basal Cell Carcinoma this summer I have had surgery to remove the beast. 3 views. No.1 The surgeon put my lip back together. No.2 One week after the surgery and all but the dissolving stitches are out. ...
Hi, there is a thread in the Head and Neck forum regarding Flamazine and was directed to this forum to ask about Flamaze. Husband is at the end of week 6 of 7 radiotherapy. There maybe one further course of chemo, yet to be decided. He has been given...
Hello, My Dad has Leukaemia and has been coping brilliantly for a number of years now. There was an issue with a trial drug that caused complications a couple of years ago (to his heart) In September my Dad caught covid and he has been so very poorly...
Hi, I just wanted some advice on my wife 35 years old who's had been suffering from lupus for over 20 years, we have been told that we never can have kids because of lupus but God proved that wrong,and we were blessed with 2 boys (12 and 5 years). Unfortunately...
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