Hi all Just wondering, does/did anyone experience high levels of inflammation along with their diagnosis?? Dad is on his 6/7th course of antibiotics - they stop for a few days - and he is back on them. We think the inflammation is tumour driven...
Hi All, I have my first session tomorrow and currently having a right panic about it all. I am so scared but know I need to have it to ensure I have the best chance. My doctor explained all the side effects and said I may get them all or not any....
I completed 5 weeks of chemo and radiotherapy which once the pain and swelling subsided I felt went well as I could eat a normal diet. I am unsuitable for surgery. I have been suffering from a chest infection for the past month, which I assumed was...
Hi all - my partner of 36 years has been diagnosed with this awful cancer and is luckily at TM2 - he has been advised to have chemo but has the added complication of having a genetic form of Charcot Marie Tooth disease .CMT can be very adversely affected...
Hiya everyone , just to keep people in the loop. My husband had the Ivor Lewis op on the 2nd June . The surgeon said it was the size of a small football. Husband spent 11 days in hospital. Zero complications. He is eating small meals as often as possible...
My husband has undergone an Ivor Lewis op as so many of you have. We were under 3 weeks from unofficial diagnosis (visual on endoscope) many many further tests, to final diagnosis and treatment plan of skipping chemo straight to surgery. It has been just...
Hi All Mum was diagnosed back in March with squamous cell carcinoma, originally the plan was chemo/radio followed by surgery then either more chemo or immunotherapy but a spanner got thrown in the works because we found out she has hypermobility and...
Hi everyone, so after 10 months of sheer disbelief, anger, pain and gruelling treatment, today I got the news I so desperately needed to hear. I started on this journey in September of last year being diagnosed with t3 m1 and n0 with the tumour sitting...
Recent biopsy results and an initial CT scan confirmed my husband has oesophageal cancer. He is now waiting for a PET scan (tomorrow) and an ultrasound endoscopy next week before doctors can establish the size of the tumour and offer more info and a treatment...
Hi my mum was diagnosed last August with Oesophageal cancer . Was told not curable but did get 6 cycles of chemo which finished end of January. They were happy with how she responded and had her repeat ct scan on the 30th April, we are finally getting...
