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Hi. Can anyone tell me what happens at the planning scan? I’m due to have mine tomorrow and I’m feeling extremely anxious. I’m due to have my 4th chemotherapy this week, and straight in to radiotherapy after the 6th week.
Hello After 2 I'm back again...with a cancer? Hope not. But if it is? How to cope with it again? How to live? How to survive... In 2021 I was diagnosed with servical cancer with lymph node spread, stage 3. Treated with chemo, radio and brachytherapy...
Back in Feb I developed a massive blood clot at the end of my port, it almost entirely blocked my superior vena cava and extended down into the right atrium of my heart and led to a delightful 6 week hospital admission. Since discharge I’ve managed...
Sitting in Elizabeth Loury ward alone in quiet room waiting for a chair to be ready for me. Feeling very vulnerable and anxious. Been here nearly 2 hours. Have my 1st cycle of chemotherapy today carboplatin and etiposide. Have to have it in ward 1st cycle...
Hi, I had a routine smear this morning. After the nurse had finished she said she was going to refer me to be seen as she said my cervix looked abnormal. I am now terrified!! I have had an abnormal smear before but never been told at the actual smear...
I started radiation treatment yesterday. I will begin chemo on Monday. I've been nauseous right after radiation.
I was diagnosed with cervical cancer 3 weeks ago its a 1B3. I had my PET scan today and my treatment starts on the 20/5 with chemo once a week and radiotherapy 5 times a week.
Hi, I had bleeding start over the weekend & then went to the doctors who noticed a 3cm mass lesion hanging from the cervix. I’ve been referred urgently to get this tested. I’m just scared , as single mum of 2 kids. What’s the chances of this being cancer...
Hi everyone, Just sharing my thoughts here. My wife was diagnosed with cervical cancer some days ago, no staging yet. The team is still working on a treatment plan and staging I assume. The complication here is that she is 19 weeks pregnant and the...
Hi, I am booked for my radical Hysterectomy on Tuesday 2nd April. I am really scared, anxious and apprehensive. Also worried about what they will find extra in there. Have also been dealing with faecal impaction which doesn’t seem to be moving with...
