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This week it’s HPV awareness week. Vaccination rates have been dropping in our youngsters. Oracle Cancer Trust are running a campaign and our very own RadioactiveRaz and Crofterlad are in this excellent YouTube video. Well done Hazel and Anson. Fly the...
Hello everyone, I have found your posts really helpful and supportive. I finished a 6 week course of radiotherapy with one dose of chemo, should have been 2 but I developed low sodium and the second was cancelled, my oncologist decided not to re-schedule...
Evening everyone. So great news as i called the ENT secretary and she said the results were benign. So is that it then? Def nothing to worry about?. Seems a bit odd they would bother with the MRI on Wednesday or still want to take the tonsil out, although...
Hi New here - I’ve joined the online community because my hubby who had oropharyngeal cancer 10 years ago and h beat it, has recently been diagnosed with a new neck cancer with a secondary lung cancer in the mediastinum. Following all the RT on the...
Well there was I thinking I could just clear off skiing for a week before the start of treatment, only to just be told the Post Office will not cover me……I’ve had annual policies with them for years!! Absolute nightmare trying to find an insurer for...
Morning, they have found a mass behind my dads voice box which they have said is cancer but until they have the biopsy results it cannot be said for certain. We are getting his results tomorrow and was wondering if there are any main questions that I...
hello, i have read on the macmillan site regarding diet - saying no to mayonnaise, yoghurt and tea and coffee, when i went for the chemo yesterday, they offered me tea, coffee, yoghurt, tuna and mayo cheese and mayo, egg and mayo, prawn and mayo sandwiches...
hello i wanted to know, i have never had a covid or flu vaccine and am being urged to do so in the trimester of chemo, as they have bumped up the chemo to start this friday instead of three weeks from now and am curious, do i really need to get a covid...
Morning All. Hope your all doing Ok today. As per my previous post I had a pre assessment for a tonsillectomy carried out on Friday for the op on Tuesday morning. I was planned for a MRI scan today which after machine breakdown and possible postponement...
Hi I am new to this forum. I was diagnosed yesterday. Really worried. Not sure what to expect. I am going to have 6 weeks of radiotherapy 5 days per week and chemotherapy for 6 weeks once a week. I am pretty scared but putting on a brave face for...
