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Hi I've recently been diagnosed with primary renal cell carcinoma with pulmonary and brain mets, its just so emotional and overwhelming. My wife is bearing up well but I worry so much for her. The uncertainty about the future is crippling me
Good morning I've recently been diagnosed with a s4 glioblastoma and had my debulking surgery at St George's hospital which went extremely well and they removed 90% of the tumor. I start radiotherapy and chemo on 1st Nov and I'm terrified of the side...
Hello I am new here. I have recently been diagnosed with a brain tumour and got informed the tumour is a glioblastoma grade 4.i have had surgery and the the tumour has gone but have to have radiotherapy and chemotherapy to target any remaining cells...
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...
My partner had a brain tumour removed earlier this year. He has has radiotherapy and is now undergoing 6 cycles of pvc. We have just found out that I am pregnant (happened before chemo began). We both want children and had gone through the process of...
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...
