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I finished radiotherapy to the oesophagus in the middle of September. For the last 2 weeks of treatment eating hot more and more painful. I have tried various painkilling formulas with little success and I also have near constant nausea and constipation...
Hi my husband has stage 4 cancer and is quite frail now. Hi skin has become really itchy and sore . We’ve tried varies creams from the doctor. Can anyone out there recommend anything else he could use. It’s quite red and aggravated. Thank you Evely...
Got tumer in oeao in wheelchair and pip have declined me im ill private company's telling dwp lies
Just got back from my first Oncology appointment. My cancer has spread to my bone and every lymph node. It is incurable and the dr told me that with a ball park figure that if I respond to treatment well they could give me just over a year, If not it...
I don’t have a lot of information as my partners sister has just been diagnosed with cancer and is an alcoholic. She has attended the appointment herself and just come back and told us she has it, no mention of staging but has said she is going in next...
Hello all My friend has recently had 4 x FLOT over 8 weeks Had scan today to say it has not spread but the tumour had not reduced at all. Is this a bad sign? They are indicating they are still looking at surgery to remove but I wondered if this...
The beginning of August this year my mother in law AGE 66 had a sore throat and struggling to swallow, I got her a GP apt the same week, after blood tests she was referred to MRI, and after a couple of scans, x-rays mri and on the 30th September she had...
Hello all. My 89 year old dad has just been diagnosed with advanced oesophageal cancer with possible secondaries on lung. Chemo has been ruled out and he was offered radiotherapy or to have a stent inserted to help with eating. And really just going down...
Hi everyone, We've been hit with the news that my Dad has been diagnosed with this One positive is it's not spread to anyone else. However we've been told no to the surgery. He's 80 but fit and healthy before this. Yes he's lost weight and eating...
My partner has GOJ cancer. He has had FLOT, been for attempted surgery, had a stent placed and now is on more chemo. His current chemo is Cisplatin, Caperceptabine and Herceptin immunotherapy. He couldn’t swallow at all before the stent and is now going...
