Hello everyone, Happy New Year! I wish you all a healthy new year! My father was diagnosed last summer with nasopharyngeal carcinoma and several neck lymph nodes affected, including a supraclavicular lymph node. He had a PET CT before starting the...
Hi all i am going to receive 6 weeks of radio and 6 x Chemo. Hopefully starting end January. Am i right in assuming the Chemo will be 1 day per week alongside the radio or do they administer the Chemo in one block. I have to have stomach tube fitted next...
Just had all my results today and treatment plan. My cancer has not spread anywhere else yet so I am to start 30 days of radiotherapy in January all around my neck I have to say I am really wondering how I will cope with this but I know I have to be strong...
Mum is t4m1n2b but they reckon they can cure her. She only had 30 sessions of radiotherapy which ended in October. recently she’s developed a croaky voice. Any ideas how long this will last? We’re worried the cancer is back but her nurse said it’s nothing...
Hi everybody, just an update for anybody interested and for me. So, treatment finished 14th Dec and its been up and down. 1 step forward, 2 steps back. I'm still managing to eat and swallow on my own which is great. My tongue has been horrendously painful...
Just wanted to share our experience of Pembrolizumab so far...my husband has had 2 IV treatments 6 weeks apart. After the first treatment it shrunk the large tumour protruding from his neck. There is another tumour at the original site of his surgery...
Thank you all for sharing your stories with me I really appreciate it and it has helped me so much. I had my mask fitting on Friday and my CT scan with the mask on today, on Wednesday I have my MRI with the mask on which I have to admit I am not looking...
Hello I’m new here, and feeling a bit confused! my consultant telephoned me yesterday, with my results from my tonsil biopsies and CT and MRI scans, Iv been waiting all Christmas worrying. He said the CT and MRI were good news, but the biopsies...
I take roughly 12 tablets a day and have been through the issue of not being able to swallow never mind eating and drinking which I eventually got admitted to hospital for. While I was receiving treatment I was on big tablets and loads of them for pain...
My two weeks of Radiotherapy is done, I ended up in A&E wed evening they got sorted, just feeling really crappy now and washed out. All that's left now is a ct scan on the 10th and a phone consultation with my oncologist on the 31st and to decide whether...
