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Hi my husband has been told he may not be able to have the chemotherapy following his operation as he is underweight, I am worried no as they say it help to elevate the cancer returning. Has anyone on here not had the adjuvant chemotherapy please ant...
My husband is in his 7th week of treatment. He’s having chemo and radiotherapy. His main side effect is sickness and vomiting. He has lost his appetite completely and is losing weight. Any advice on how to help him gain some weight.
Hi all My dad continues to have issues around eating certain foods since his surgery 8 weeks ago. I think he's starting to find that foods he once enjoyed eating are now sadly no longer suitable. Earlier today he ate a cheese and ham toastie (a ready...
How we doing treading down this path.
Does anyone have any reactions to different foods and drinks post op ? ever since my operation in march I found I get headaches after eating certain foods and drinks . It’s taken me months to work out what’s causing this but Iv established that just drinking...
So I was diagnosed yesterday during an endoscopy said it was a 2cm malignant tumor now waiting for a CT scan and help or advice would be appreciated
Hi, my dad has recently been diagnosed with oesophageal cancer stage T3 N3 M1, sadly his cancer is inoperable he has been offered palliative chemo starting with the EOX regime, I’m so devastated by this as currently he is well, no symptoms, weight stable...
Hello, my mother has recently been diagnosed with barrels esophagus where they've discovered some cells and she requires some severe surgery to remove. Just trying to process this as even typing the word cancer is difficult.
This may be a bit premature on m y part as I haven't even started chemo yet (3.5 months since diagnosis + , is this a record yet?) But I'm wondering if anyone has been through this with coeliac and how hard hard have they found it to find things they...
I had a PEG procedure 3 hours ago at Homerton Hospital in Hackney. No literature or discussions with medical staff prepared me for the very high level of pain I am now in. Talk was of "discomfort". What have been other people's experiences post operation...
