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Hi,new to the group.Looking for any ideas on how to support my husband deal with night sweats.
Hello..my husband has been diagnosed with oesophageal cancer with metastasis to lymph nodes. Palliative tx only giving him 15 months..9 months to live without tx. He is starting tx on Tuesday 10 January ..Oxaliplatin and Pembrolizumab infusions, then...
Hi everyone, so glad I found this forum. I have been reading lots of the threads and it’s helping me a lot. My dad has just been told he has malignant tumour and has had ct scan with the dye, awaiting those results to see where we go from there. not...
Hi I am in my second round of chemo and for some reason it seems to have made the acid reflux at night a lot worse. I am sleeping almost upright and taking Omeprazole twice a day and Gaviscon when going to bed. Does anyone have any suggestions on...
I’d been waiting for over a month for biopsy results . Sadly it seems I got lost in the system After being told by each department, that another one had the results etc . I finally contacted my GP surgery . Received a text an hour later with a telephone...
Hi, my mum was diagnosed today with terminal esophageal cancer, she has less than a year, much less if she does nothing. They have offered her a stent so she can eat a little or radiotherapy. Has anyone been through this, she is worried about the pain...
Just before Christmas my wife had problems eating food and if she did she quite often brought it back up. After Christmas she had an oppointment at the hospital. Result came back with oc cancer t3 n2 m0. Things since then have moved on fast with biopsy...
Diagnosed with LA D stage oesopgagitis . Biopsies taken but no results yet . I had thought they were looking at stomach cancer but now realise it was upper gastrointestinal. I am finding the nausea / ‘ full feeling ‘/ and trouble eating anything ...
Son (53) had oesophagus tumour removed early December discharged 5 weeks later to us as he lives alone.. On a feeding line through the night and trying to eat little and often , not very successfully during the day. Employers now wanting to know when...
Hi, my husband was diagnosed T2N0M0 in January 2023. He will be 70 this year and we were just starting to really enjoy our retirement. The cancer was picked up through an endoscopy to find out why he was having upper chest pain, initially thought to be...
