Just finished five weeks radiotherapy and chemotherapy four chemotherapy infusions and chemotherapy tablets for the 12 weeks. For oesophageal cancer How long after treatment do you start getting back to normal presently feeling tired, weak and still...
Hello Everyone I have posted on this site before and found so many amazing friends, family, relatives who have been struck by this awful disease. My husband Michael was diagnosed on a date that will live with me forever, 24th November 2023, he was...
Hi. I'm visiting from the Head & Neck forum asking for advice please. Has anyone any experience of having their throat dilated post treatment? I was referred from ENT to gastro and had a flexible endoscopy with my throat stretched with a balloon...
HI Wondering if anyone has any issues with thick black mucus, my partner is 2 years post surgery but chokes up mucus every night various times, can be if he eats or if he doesn't no real reason we can gather this has always happened. (even with 8 stretches...
Morning all, My husband has just completed cycle 6 of CAPOX chemo but is still suffering bad with upper back pain. Does anyone else have upper back pain? He has a CT scan on Thursday but I am worried something else is going on. Angie
Hi, I was diagnosed at the end of December with cancer, but a further PET scan showed an "abnormal" lymph node in the chest cavity and a further one in the left side of the neck. An operation took place to remove the one in the chest cavity for biopsy...
My Husbands surgery is 1st July and we've been told will be 8-9 hours. I was a complete wreck on the day of his staging laparoscopy but maybe it was because of the fear of what they'd find? I don't want to be sitting around moping but also concerned...
Is anybody else post-op still taking multivitamins? I’m on Forceval soluble once a day. I also take Lansoperazol 30mg twice a day.
I have stage 4 uncurable esophageal cancer and there is no optionforan operation. I have had 6 cycles of chemotherapy and immunotherapy. I had a scan after the 4th which showed my tumour had shrunk. I am having 8 chemo cycles in total then I will continue...
My husband, aged 53, is starting radiotherapy for Oesophageal cancer on Tuesday. He had two sessions of chemo but kept getting pneumonia so could not resume further sessions and building resistance to antibiotics. He had Sepsis last week and on strong...
