Hi everyone! My partner lives abroad due to the immigration process in the UK. He was going back and forth to a doctor that was giving him nasal spray and the problem wasn't really going away, so eventually I managed to get him to a well recommended...
Hi My darling husband had his post treatment scan results today. He beat tjroat cancer but sadly pet scan has shown he has bone cancer in spine and both sides of pelvic bones. With no treatment he bern told 9 to 12 months. No cure. Be offered immune...
my partner finished his treatment 30 rt 2 chemo nearly 8 weeks ago. we saw the ent consultant and oncologist at the beginning of this week and they both said everything looked fine as far as they could see (tube down nose and feeling neck and looking...
Hi Everyone I'm just reaching the end of my second week RT. The one massive negative so far is that I have lost all my taste! This is making it impossible to eat anything and I've already lost 4 kilos. Much as I try I just gag if I try and force anything...
So 8 weeks post Chemoradiation treatment, I go for a follow up with my Oncologist last Friday. At which he shares with me that during the planning of my treatment whilst viewing my scans, they noticed a ‘nodule’ on my thyroid, what the actual!!! And he...
Hi again, Sorry more questions I begin my treatment on 24th July, first day of radiotherapy and first week of chemo cisplatin. I have been informed that I will be having my RIG fitted on 8th August at 1.30pm with 1 night in hospital. I also have chemo...
Hi, recently diagnosed with HPV throat cancer. Found a lump on the left of my neck around 8 weeks ago, diagnosed as cancer after biopsy. Tongue base mucosectomy found primary on right side of the tongue. Surgery not an option due to location, so radical...
Hi - Seriously confused. Went for 2nd opinion for treatment plan for my husbands SSC P16+. He is 53 and we have a 2 year old... we are scared to death. It's in the right tonsil and lymph node. Cancer Center 1 did not suggest surgery because they couldn...
Hi all, Needing some support... had a terrible day. I have my wife, so I do have someone in the real world to talk to. Just met with oncologist today and I have been told that I have incurable metastases to my lungs (both lungs and chest lymph nodes...
Hi all, I’m Sue and have tongue cancer which has spread to my lymph nodes on the right hand side of my neck. I have recently had a second tongue op and neck dissection and am awaiting radiotherapy. I’m having a rig fitted next week then radiotherapy...
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