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Good morning all, my partner 48 has just been diagnosed with oesophageal cancer, we are not certain on his staging as yet as he needs to have a PET scan to see if it's gone into any more of his lymph nodes, currently in one that is near his tumor. Obviously...
Hi All Sitting here wondering weather to go ahead with treatment or not What i cant understand is why when i can eat normally have no pains and am leading a normal life would i agree to have poison put into my body that might make me feel like shit...
Hi all, Thank you to all that have messaged me so far over the week- you are so much better than Google! I’ve just found the stages of my mums cancers, we might have been told but I never took it in or understood until now. There’s one right of hypo...
Hi, my mum has been advised to stop chemo as she has suffered serious side effects. She is stsge 4 osaphagus cancer. This has come as a real shock. Has anyone else had any similar experiences? Thank you
My husband has stage 4 cancer and was diagnosed just under 2 years ago. Recently he went through radiotherapy and suffered a stroke. 3 weeks ago he had a heart attack. I felt I was managing my anxiety but now I find I’m worried most days. I’ve been off...
My father is 80, he has just finished 10 days of radiotherapy for squamous cell oesophageal cancer. He has lost so much weight and hardly eats or drinks anything due to the pain in his chest, throat He has energy drinks from the hospital to make up...
Hubby out if hospital last week. Got chemo interview tomorrow and if all OK with bloods and his well being, will be able to start on capox chemo on Friday. I just hope it has a positive reaction to it, we know it can't be cured now but if we can try and...
Good afternoon, my father has OC and 3 weeks ago had his surgery. Since being home a week I would say he’s had one successful day of “eating” At the moment he isn’t tolerating anything and not keeping it down. He’s on antisickess , acid reflux medication...
Hi All, My husband, 64 and healthy, got a crouton stuck last November and then in January a bit of pizza. We waited weeks before a GP would refer him to have the camera down his throat. The same day he had a CT Scan and the following week a PET Scan...
Hi Vonn/Amanda, We met with the consultant yesterday and after reviewing all the scans we were told the cancer has spread to the liver. They won't be able to operate now, we meet with the oncologist next to discuss treatment plan. Tony is a fighter...
