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Hello everyone, My mom got diagnosed with cervical cancer yesterday and I’m scared. My father passed away from lung cancer 2 years ago and I don’t want to see my mom go through a hard time like he did… It started last September after her annual PAP...
Hi, I’m new here and I’m sorry you all find yourselves here in this kind of support group. I apologize for the long post. I’m Jo and a 37 year old mother of 3! I’ve no diagnosis, but I’m petrified I have cancer. I have every single symptom I read and...
Hi there, I am 2 years post treatment (radiotherapy, chemo and brachytherapy) after a stage 3 diagnosis at 34yo. I was 'lucky' through the treatment that I didn't suffer horribly with side effects, I was able to carry on working and other than some...
Counting down the days to the start of my planned chemotherapy (6 sessions over 18 weeks of Carboplatin & Paclitaxel) and reading endlessly trying to keep focused and see this as hopefully the successful end of my treatment with maybe some radiotherapy...
Evening , so I had my RH in Jan and have recovered well thankfully, my tissues have come back that although originally I had squamous cell cancer I also had a mix of smile. We spoke about chemo/radio but as my tissues etc had clear margins my consultant...
Hello, Apologies this is a bit long. I was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2022 and underwent a radical hysterectomy, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and brachytherapy. All was mostly good in 2023 with no recurrence but I did discover I had lymphoma...
Hello everyone I am new to cervical dysplasia/cancer. Thankfully I don't have cancer yet, but I am so very frightened and hope to get some support here Last week my pap smear came back als mild dysplasia. Already expected this because i am a very...
I am 51 and have o er the last few months os have experienced much heavier periods to normal. My last period i was bleeding for around two week. I then noticed some pink on the toilet paper when wiping, this led me to go to the doctors. The doctor examined...
I went to the doctors as I was having abnormal vaginal bleeding. They reffered me for the urgent 2 week refferal for supected cancer. They examined and took some biopsies of the cervix as apparently there were abnormal patches all over. They basically...
Hi all, I’m not sure why I’m posting but I’m so scared I just needed to share with others. I had a smear test 2 weeks ago and whilst doing it the nurse said that my cervix looked abnormal. GP called to make an appointment which was this week, GP could...
