Hi, 2 weeks ago i got my friend to take my husband to a&e because he was acting so strangely. I noted all his symptoms and they scanned him and found a brain tumour. He is still in hospital. They are hoping to send him home this week. We have...
Hi I’m new here my husband was diagnosed back in 2017 and has had intense radiotherapy 2018 was fine until last year when he had some chemo only 2 lots as his blood count dropped dramatically then a ain this year he has had one lot of chemo same result...
Hi my name is Sam, I went to stage 1V metastatic melanoma in June 19 - I had 4 sessions of SRS and took targeted therapy. This has now stopped working and I switched over to immunotherapy on Tuesday so far so good is there anyone about who would like...
Morning. My step dad was told yesterday he has secondary cancer and it’s gone to the brain. 8 years ago he lost his eye and some of his face after finding cancer. He had various treatments and was told they hoped they had it all. No it’s back and not...
Help! My husband of almost 30 years, 52 years old has recently been diagnosed with stage 4 GBM. 25th July 21. He's went from a strong fit healthy scaffolder, lifting tonnes of steel daily to being barely able to lift his tea cup, a dramatic decline in...
Hi, I know I’m probably over reacting but I really can’t help it. I’m so worried my husband has a brain tumour, he’s been experiencing headaches on one side of his head. It’s worse when he sits it lays down. The pain sometimes wakes him up at night. This...
Hi. My first post on here. My dad was diagnosed with a grade 4 fast growing glioma in May. He had brain surgery at the beginning of June and had Chemo (tablets) and radiotherapy. He seemed to sail through that but then it’s all gone rapidly downhill....
Hello, everyone. I am 79 and have been diagnosed with a high grade glioma tumour, for which I am to undertake six radiotherapy sessions next month. The news has made me feel low and tired most of the time, but I wonder how much of this might be due to...
This patient underwent awake craniotomy and radical debulking of a right frontal grade 3 anaplastic oligodendroglioma I have been asked to provide a letter to confirm that unfortunately this patient has a multiple-focal...
Where do I start? Do I really need a support group? Is this really happening or am I in a nightmare. It was my husbands 50th birthday and I treated him to a once in a lifetime meal at Ynyshir. We had an amazing few days in north Wales. On our travels...
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