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Hi, What a wonderful tool this site is, and populated with wonderful brave people! I was diagnosed with bladder cancer in November and was treated via cystoscopy. Am down to annual cystoscopies to check for cancer. So far I’m clear Then in June 2025...
About a month after I started a course of oral chemotherapy (Capecitabine), I developed symptoms that were similar to hay fever: head full of mucus, runny nose, runny and sore eyes, increased deafness. However it was November and I've never had real hay...
My mum was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma in February. With 5 weeks she received a wipple surgery to remove the cancer. I thought the hard part would have been the 6 weeks in hospital recovering. But since she started chemo at home it has broke me...
Hello I'm Joe from Newport South Wales I had an operation in November 2024 in which my gallbladder was removed and small tumor excised from my liver which has now regenerated. I was given 6 months chemo in tablet form as a precaution. By the end of...
Hi all, I would like some help from the community. I'm new here and I fell upon this site from googling gifts for a mum with stage 4 bile duct cancer. To tell you a bit of what I'm here for, one of the mums in my daughters soccer team has always asked...
Hi I’m new here. I’m just really worried about my husband. This has been going on for quite awhile. He had the usual signs of being really tired nausea itchy skin and massive weight loss. To cut a long story short it went through the system and they found...
Hi! My husband was was diagnosed in March with a 2.8cm HCC. He had very successful Tace & Ablation which destroyed the tumour & surrounding area. However we are now told it is ICC. He is cancer free atm & no spread & not in lymph nodes. We are so worried...
I have bile duct cancer which is not been reconized with the cancer team as tnere is no cure people are only going froom what i have been told no cure,At the moment i have a tyre around my belly also i have gained weight on my legs and ! i have had scansbut...
Congrats to all reading this. God is good. Feb 6th, 2008, I had my whipple, cholangiocarcinoma. Turned yellow, after a week of tests, scans, biopsy’s …. It was confirmed. 3 days later my world changed. After a difficult 13 hour whipple procedure, I woke...
Hello I just wanted to add my story, I’m 52 years old lady and was diagnosed with stage 4 bile duct cancer with mets to lymph nodes in April 2024. I had right sided tummy ache for around 7months which I put down to stress due to a very close family bereavement...
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