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Hopefully someone can help with my Query, I’ve just applied for PIP and just filling the form in online, I’m waiting for results from pet scan and start date for treatment which hopefully should be within the next few weeks, my question is as the side...
As my lovely group know I have the odd vent when things are a bit (you know) but give me my dues...I let you know the good stuff. My reason for my negative mood is.... over about 6 weeks a pain in my shoulder has gradually gotten worse and last Saturday...
I am starting treatment tomorrow and very anxious. I have squamous cell carcinoma in my anal canal I will be getting drip of chemo in morning followed by tablet form and radiotherapy for 5 days and 5 weeks Anyone else going through the same. I am...
Hi Everyone well I have survived the last two weeks and a half after treatment - just about! Glad I read so many threads on here so i was prepared for how bad it would be! Good news is that the burns are healing nicely now and I am feeling less tired...
hi all , I had a biopsy done 2 1/2 weeks ago , my stitches have dissolved and my cut still seems to be seeping, I went to the nurse last week to get it checked and she said that it seems fine and not infected, sometimes they seep when they are healing...
I didn't have any idea what grade my cancer is/was until I got a copy of the doctor's letter. It is T4 N1 MO. It came as a bit of a shock. Any thrivers with this grade, please?
I was given the results of my first post treatment scans yesterday. My chemoradiotherapy treatment ended on 27th April and I had an MRI and PET-CT scan on 22nd July. My results were inexplicably delayed but finally I had my appointment with my oncologist...
I am probably panicking I due my scan on 3 August it's my first one so have scan terror . I went for a poo and there was some blood on the outside mind you it was very big one (sorry) I am now panicking has any one had a similar situation I have been...
Hi all, I’ve just been diagnosed this week, got my PET scan on Wednesday, so hopefully when the results are back I will know my treatment plan, feeling very scared and emotional and not really sure what happens next after my scan, I was told by my consultant...
Hi, I am not the one with this but my mom is. We are still,as a family, trying to come to terms with diagnosis, treatment and outcome. For the last 10 years my mom has been treated by GP for constipation. We then moved in, as our new build was not finished...
