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Hello, I hope someone will know the answers to my questions as I'm begining to worry a little bit about returning to the UK from Spain after having had Stage 3 er +++, a mastectomy, chemo, radiotherapy and am now on Ribiciclib and Letrozole. I started...
Hello, I was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer spread to liver. Incurable but have had chemo and immunotherapy. Chemo very successful reduced tumours now immunotherapy alone. Last 2 weeks been bad with headaches, dizziness, pain in lung and liver area...
I had a Robotic Prostatectomy in June 25 & fortunately all went well. I was initially given a VED pump along with SILDENAFIL tablets for penile rehabilitation but the side affects (lousy headaches & aggravating my Tinnitus) seemed to out way the advantages...
Hi I am a 73 year old female receiving BCG treatment for bladder cancer. I would be grateful if you could tell me if I should be getting the Covid vaccination. In the past I have been given both covid and flu but have only been offered the flu vaccination...
Hi, My mum was diagnosed with lung cancer today following a CT acan. She has an upper right nodule that has grown from 11mm in July to 16mm in september. As my mum is frail and immobile the consultant advised her cancer wouldn't be treated and that it...
4cm square so painful head throbbing went to doctor on 6th Aug appointment with dermatology consultant on 14th September then appt with plastic surgeon a week later op on Nov 6 . I’m a type 1 diabetic and have a kidney transplant limited to what pain...
Good evening I’m wondering if you could help me my dads just been recently diagnosed with prostate cancer and he is finding things really difficult, he has taken to his bed and he is really depressed , the x ray showed that dad had the cancer in his...
I had a mastectomy of my right breast 3 years ago, following the removal of a tumour that was oestrogen positive . I have been taking letrozole since then. This summer, I had a tumour in my left breast, which was a new primary cancer, but also oestrogen...
I have a smallish BBC on my right inner wrist. It's progressed over the past few months from a small pimple with two pin head like tops, to a larger, more circular area about 4mm across. Over the past couple of weeks it's become redder and from a side...
Hi, My father recently told me he has been diagnosed with first stage Liver Cancer. He was advised that they would like to treat it with SIRTs method. I live abroad and whilst he has made me aware of the procedure, he has said after the treatment he...
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