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Hi I'm Kate I thought I would introduce myself and tell my story, I will apologise now for the long post! I'm 44, married with 3 children. My story starts back in August 2021, I started having strong period pains that refused to go away even after...
Hi all, I am sharing my positive news that I am one year on from my diagnosis and surgery and I am doing welll. I had 1B1 Cervical Cancer, poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma with a component of invasive SMILE. I had a radical hysterectomy a year...
Hello, I’m new here. I’m 33 and I’ve just finished my treatment. I had 5 weeks of daily radiotherapy and weekly chemo and I had 3 rounds of brachytherapy. One was an overnight stay where they gave me the brachy on the first day, left the rods in and...
Hi all, Just wanted to reach out to anybody that has been through a similar situation to myself… I was diagnosed with 1b1 then downgraded to 1a1 adenocarcinoma of cervix nearly a year ago. i have had several procedures; LLETZ, cone biopsy and hysteroscopy...
hello, I am new here after being told on Monday I have a high chance of cervical cancer - severe dyskaryosis on my cervix. Abnormality being 3-4cm long. They took a few hole punch biopsy’s on Monday, and I had a ct scan & mri this week. Now i am waiting...
Hi all I’m mostly here to ask some questions and to hopefully ease my mind. 2018 I had a smear with HPV but no cell changes. 2019 follow up I had HPV with cell changes. Colposcopy letter said it showed CIN1 but at the appointment she said there was...
Hello All, I have been diagnosed with Adenocarcinoma the Dr has said it’s likely stage 1A2-stage 1B1 following MR scan and recommended hysterectomy as no plans for further children. Background I am 38 years old with 1 child and I have had clear...
im just looking for advice if anyone can help my mum was having really heavy bleeding for a while and went through the smear colcoscopy and stuff we have been told she has cervical cancer but waiting on mri. She is worried sick she is going to die she...
Hello all heres my story, be grateful to hear what you think. i was originally diagnosed with serous endometrial cancer. Serous is an extremely aggressive cancer so standard first line treatment is a full hysterectomy, including omentum. Scans showed...
Hi everyone I just wanted to try and share a little positivity today-the 6 year anniversary of my original cervical cancer diagnosis. I’ll never forget the day! I was diagnosed at stage 2b, so could not have surgery, and went through 4 chemotherapy...
