I was rushed in to hospital Monday night with really bad chest pain, turns out I have multiple clots on both lungs so still in hospital on oxygen and injections….then they decided to scan my pelvic/stomach area to check if past cancer the cause as I have been disease free since March 22…just been told today that there are spots on my liver and bone abnormalities in back and leg but as it was a respiratory consultant he was unable to tell me more about survival rates? Next steps? Is it terminal? Curable? Treatable? My mind is going crazy….if anyone can give me any info…good or bad as would really like to know what I’m dealing with it would be much appreciated
Hello Sasue, so sorry to read this post, but I have to say that I saw a friend last Saturday whose cancer had come back after many years of being clear. Her husband had died fairly recently and she and I both feel the recurrence of the cancer is down to stress, but she was told it's sun damage. She's my age (75) and hardly likely to go lying in the sun. She had an operation on her neck, but she's now on immunotherapy, having been told the cancer is treatable but incurable, but after just one session the lumps in her neck have gone down. I also have another friend whose cancer returned in his lungs and he's had immunotherapy for only about 6 months and the growths have gone, so perhaps you need to discuss immunotherapy with your team and see if they think this is the answer for you. There are great strides being taken in cancer treatment all the time and hopefully you can be helped. Don't give up, we're all behind you, wishing you well. Bee Xx
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