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Hi all the wife will be starting chemo at the QE in Birmingham in the next week or 2. Just wondering if anyone could break down what a day in chemo is like for us. She was told it would be 8 hours and just has so many simple questions like so you...
Hi people finished my 20 sessions and 55.5 gy necks burnt but ok throats sore and bleeding a little so on Fortisip. but manageable with meds. im so tired not sure if its the comedown from finishing the treatment or the treatment itself. Or indeed the...
sadly, i have found i cannot afford to pay for the swale cvs who do charitable transport to and from hospital, way out of my price range, so am having to use patient transport, just wondered if anyone else has encountered this, when i have the ladies...
Sorry made a bit of a mess of that so I will start again. Got the results today.Cancer has not spread but the primary tumor is not showing so I will be having tonsils out .The scan has shown possible tumours one in right armpit and one on left groin,...
Hi, After posting last week about no scan date got phone call on Friday to go to ENT this Tuesday coming at 3pm.Feeling so frightened as I was misdiagnosed in the beginning and now T4N1M0.Have been told cancer is big so feel i have little hope of treatment...
Hello everyone, I noticed that there isn’t much info related to buccal mucosa SCC at stage 1 with no spread (thankfully) to the lymph nodes - so here goes regarding my experience! I am in my 60s and had a white patch on the inside of my right cheek which...
Hi everyone, I just wanted to open this thread to post a few updates on my father in law's progress. As a quick summary, he had a partial glossectomy in July 2023, followed by a partial neck dissection in December 2023 (2 lymph nodes had cancer, with...
Hi All, I finished radiotherapy last week but I’m struggling even more to sleep. The mucus build up is so bad that I can’t manage any more than 1 hours sleep at a time. It’s been this way for a while now and I’m completely exhausted. I’m using a nebuliser...
Hi,Hope everyone is doing OK. Just wanted to update after my appointment yesterday So after MRI/ PET CT and tonsillectomy I was told that no spread anywhere else and no sign of cancer in the tonsills. At this stage no primary has been located. They...
Hi, I have a question that I forgot to ask my consultant at results of pet scan.Because my pet scan was showing hot areas she said it could be radio resistant.Does anyone know why two thirds of a tumour would respond and one third of same tumour wouldn...
