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Hi I’m new here , just wanted to join to get some advice on bile duct cancer , my husband got diagnosed in October 2021 he underwent a resection and had 80% of his liver removed , he done so well ev the doctors was shocked how well he recovered . He had...
Hi everybody. Now it is one month since I was diagnosed with bile duct cancer (choliangiosarcoma) . I feel like I'm watching somebody else story and it is not involving me. I'm absolutely devastated, as myself I'm a carer for my disable teenage son who...
Hi.i am new here.Wife was diagnosed with liver,gallbladder and bile duct cancer in May this year,been told she has months to live. I really struggle to just cope but now understand I am not alone in this.This group is a Godsend.God bless x..Bladerunn...
My mum got a call at 7.15pm Friday night to say her bloods were in and they weren’t good. Firstly asked if mum had company and when she said yes my daughters her she replied “which one?” My mum lost her other daughter to MS years ago so not exactly the...
Following a CT scan requested by my GP, I was diagnosed with Cholangiocarcinoma and had a stent fitted via ERPC (endoscopy) a remarkable procedure, at Morriston Hospital, Swansea. I have now seen a consultant oncologist and am due to start chemotherapy...
Hello. I have just been diagnosed with terminal bile duct cancer. They say it has spread to several other organs. I have agreed to have chemotherapy because they say that without it I only have about 5 months left. I need more than that to get my affairs...
Hi My mum has been diagnosed with a klatskin tumor. She has started an initial first 4 rounds of cistplatin/gembetacine with the hope that it will shrink on the portal vein so they can operate. She's missed the second dose of 2 of the rounds so far...
My wife got her diagnosis 2 weeks ago. Her tumour in the liver is large 9cm and she has another tumour in her portal vein and clots as well. The cancer has soreqd to her spleen and lungs too and they have said it is inoperable and chemo will only add...
I was diagnosed with bile duct cancer in December. I saw oncologist in January. Started chemo in February which has finished now . I have had a scan and tumour has not shrunk. I am devastated about this. But my concern in all of this I have not had any...
My grandma was diagnosed exactly a year ago. She had a stent fitted and we were told that she also had tumours on a kidney and her stomach. In May last year she got sepsis and had an external drain fitted due to abscesses on her liver. We were told she...
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