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Hello, my partner has recently been diagnosed with laryngeal cancer and is due to start chemoradiotherapy in the next few weeks, I just wondered if the side effects are as bad as I have heard? I am trying not to look on the internet. He can swallow fine...
My friend starts treatment monday worried sick 35 rt ive been passing her tips from here been told curative
Hi Everyone I would like some advice about travelling and Insurance and was wanting to ask how long it was after treatment that you had holidays abroad? I was diagnosed with Oropharyngeal Cancer Squamous Cell Carcinoma 16 positive with 1 lymph node...
Hi lovely people I finished on 14th Feb (30 RT no chemo) and then everything kicked in the next day. I had a phone call with the nurses on Monday this week (couldn’t get in to the hospital to see them as felt too i) as I was taking more oramorph and...
I'm a member of the Mouth Cancer Foundation Support Group, also a member of a local support group called East Kent Heads Up, which was set up with the help of Macmillan nurses and the support of our local hospital. I have joined partly to see how things...
Choices choices Offline Valley1 20 hours ago Hi so I had a call yesterday to ask me to go to see my original surgeon who removed a benign tumour close to my spine... I had an mri and biopsies done recently on 2 new tumours in my neck...and...
Breathing something of a sigh of relief today. Mentioned a few weeks back I'd been bringing up blood in the mornings again (the first real symptoms I showed last year) and they wanted to do a CT scan. Got a bit nervous a few days after the scan when...
Really sorry to ask. But can someone talk me through what I can expect to happen at a dental extraction appointment post radiotherapy? I have asked the hospital but have not got any answers and my appointment is this week coming. I’ve asked in person...
I’m sure I’ve seen somewhere on the site the answer to this: but can anyone please advise roughly how many sessions it takes for acupuncture to make any significant difference to saliva? I’ve now had 8 sessions. Difficult to assess the magnitude of the...
