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I was given some great news on Friday My PET scan results came back clear of any cancer. I was ecstatic for a few hours then started to become tearful and emotional which is the state I am still in at present. I am overjoyed to be clear after a few...
Good morning everyone... hope this email finds you bearing up with your condition and hoping for a good outcome, and trying to all be positive I was diagnosed with the above only a week ago, and I am a complete mess at the moment..as I'm sure we have...
Hi everyone. My dad has stage 4 throat cancer (nasopharynx) he had an 8cm tumour on one side of the neck, and several smaller tumours around the throat and neck. Also spread to the Base of the skull. He started chemo 2 weeks ago and has had 2 sessions...
Hi there. I'm due to go in for a microlaryngoscopy tomorrow morning, as I have a mass on both vocal chords. I have been unable to quit smoking. I am all of a panic and I know the risks. I have cut down from around 30 per day to around 10 over the last...
Hello all it's been a while, but happy to say husband is really doing great after tonsil cancer diagnosis in 2021, treatment was horrendous and recovery was a while but can honestly say he almost back to normal. I do have one issue that I'd like to...
Hi all You've all been so helpful to me giving me advice about my Mother's Tonsil and back of toungue cancer (P16 positive). She has now completed all her radiotherapy. She didn't get through all 6 chemos. She just did 2 as she was so sick on it. Anyway...
Is it all in my head? up until now the only symptom I’ve had is a lump when I swallow. today I’ve started with a sore tongue but the biopsy was taken from the base of my tongue / throat. Did anyone else have little or no symptoms?
Hi all, I'm two and a half years post treatment, chemo & radiotherapy, for squamos cell carcinoma in tonsil. Have recently been experiencing infrequent neck spasms, and was wondering if anyone else has/had this? Maybe it's the cold weather?
Has anyone noticed their blood pressure is very low after RT? Mine has dropped dramatically since finishing RT
Hello you lot! what an inspiration you have been. I was diagnosed in February with a tumour at the base of my tongue and another in the lymph gland in my neck and have done the 6wks of radio and weekly chemo followed by an mri pet scan and cat scan...
