I have posted similar before, but I thought it was worth posting the latest data I have. Today I sat in on my local Trust's annual cancer performance review and was particularly interested in the head and neck statistics. Of nearly 2000 patients referred...
I have done previous forums related to this and don’t know if I’m putting this in the right place but today we have seen the oncologist. She has said dad’s throat cancer has spread to his lungs and liver. He is going to be having immunotherapy. I cannot...
I'm a 47 year old single mum and was told yesterday that the ulcer on the side of my tongue at the back is a squamous cell carcinoma. I'm devastated. I've been told it's very small and caught early. I've had it about 3 months but tried to be seen by a...
Hi everyone My husband has his parotidectomy and neck dissection tomorrow. I am packing his bag tonight - it is the least I can do - and just wondered outside of the obvious is there anything that made a big difference to you? We are expecting two nights...
Thankyou all so much to all of you who have shared your stories and wished me well it really does help .
So I can’t sleep with worrying about my dads appointment on Thursday with the oncologist. long story short, - had neck dissection to remove 40 lymph nodes, 6 of which were cancerous. - surgery 13th November. - complications with seroma under his chin...
Hi. I had my partial glossectomy on 19th January and just been given date for follow up pathology results on 20th Feb. 4 weeks is long time to wait. Will they ring me if its clear or I know I will worry non stop..I thought it was 2 weeks till results...
I am 2 weeks into recovery after 6 weeks of chemoradiotherapy for base of tongue cancer with lymph node involvement .I am starting to feel a little better and the pain is getting easier to control .This last week though i have found it very difficult...
Once you get a NG tube fitted when does is need replacing? My tube was fitted around 7 weeks ago half way through the RT. A few weeks later I had a bridle fitted, does this get replaced more often?
When I went to the Radiotherapy planning appointment, I was introduced to my own personal mask. I was far from comfortable in fact I started having nightmares about this mask clamping me down to the machine . I can tell you while that mask will never...
