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Hi all, This is my first time posting to any Macmillan forum. My day job is working at an ovarian cancer charity and moderating our forum, so it's strange to be posting from the 'other side'. My dad's story - he was diagnosed out of the blue in early...
Hi my sister recently moved to a hospice where she will spend her last days / weeks. She had a prognosis 8 weeks ago that was completely not expected. She has stage 4 binary duct cancer, a very aggressive form that has spread to her gallbladder, liver...
Hi new to all this, my wife just been diagnosed and had her first treatment last friday, i hate to think what she is going through cos i cant get my head round all this , i tend to have a lot of time to myself at work and just cant stop over. thinking...
Just had a phone call from my nurse, confirming that the biopsies have shown that the cancer's there. She's going to get in touch the oncologist for an appt asap also with the Macmillan nurses, so looks as though is this the start of the end
Hi, i had a liver resection and bile duct reconstruction in July 2023 fir bile duct cancer and was left with some right sided abdominal discomfort. Since March of this year the pain has escalated to varying but almist constsnt abdominal and back pain...
Hi my sister who is 6 years older than me and only 54 years of age was taken into hospital 5 weeks ago with suspected gallstones. However, after an MRI scan and CT, a consultant came and told us that they had found something sinister on her scans. After...
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Hi my mum (71) healthy for her age, was admitted to hospital recently with a bile obstruction she had jaundice and had to get an external bile drainage bag in her left side possibly permanent all her jaundice has now cleared they couldn't get a stent...
When newly and suddenly diagnosed with bile duct cancer and due to age and general health surgery is not an option do people ever come home again from hospital?
Hi all, I'm caring for my mum who has a large tumour in her liver, we've been told it started in the bile duct. At her last scan before chemo started it was 17. 5cmx8cm. She has her last "big/long treatment of chemo & immunotherapy tmoro then a scan...
