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Hi. I found a lump in March last year and was finally diagnosed last September. Previously I had breast cancer in 2012. I was told my cancers weren’t connected as this one was HPV related. I was assured my treatment would be curative. I won’t lie, it...
evening all, had a phone call today to see if I was available for panendoscopy next Wednesday, so have pre op on Saturday. Still haven’t had MRI as yet but at least things are starting to forward now. I expect as it’s too close to Xmas that any RT and...
Hello, I am 3 weeks post treatment(2 cisplatin, 30 rad sessions) and still have my RIG fitted, I am starting to eat alot more myself during the day, moved to a stage 6 diet already as my swallow is fairly strong! I am really starting to struggle...
Hello all, I’m back posting here after a long gap and it’s nice to see some familiar names. Hello again everyone! My husband Michael had a tooth taken out three weeks ago. It set off a huge trauma. The socket is not healing normally and he has developed...
My dad (65) was diagnosed with stage four head and neck cancer 2 years ago. After radiotherapy and chemo we got a great prognosis all has been going well until a month ago and he’s found a lump in his neck, had a scan and biopsy recently. My question...
I am 70 and 10 days ago (day 1), I started a 30 day course of radiotherapy supplemented by a weekly dose of chemotherapy (cisplatin). Following my head and neck surgery (removing everything relevant including secondaries and a full tonsillectomy) and...
Hi Everyone Last week I had my annual thyroid blood test, hope everyone who’s had radiotherapy has a diary note to do the same. There’s 2 tests that need doing the TSH and the T4. Mine have been steadily increasing over the last 6 years had my first...
Hello. I am new to this or any forum. I had a swollen gland that didn't go down. It turned out to be an SC carcinoma in the lymph node. This was removed along with all of the nodes in the left side of my neck with a fairly major neck dissection. It was...
I just wanted to say hi to everyone as l am new to this group as l have just joined, still navigating how this forum works ,wanted to just connect with people who have experienced having neck cancer
Hello, I was diagnosed with tongue cancer last week and have just had my last scan. I understand it will be two weeks for the scan results. They believe it to be early stages and quite small so will be surgery and lymph nodes in my neck to also be removed...
