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Hi My name is Mick. I went through a course of radio and chemo therapy treatment for throat cancer at Northampton General Hospital during summer 2023 and am now 15 months post-treatment. When I was in various oncology based waiting rooms during the...
Hi again, I’m really panicking this morning and would like some advice from people with similar problems. I have cancer of the tongue and lymph nodes on right side and have been using a feeding rig for approx 3 weeks since my tongue was too sore to touch...
Hi, Finished my last of 35 radio sessions last Friday. I have been lucky to be able to continue eating throughout, albeit cottage pie, Mac and cheese and rice pudding continually. I am keen to understand when others have recovered any sense of taste...
Just thought I’d say hello. 51 year old male diagnosed with tonsil cancer, HPV16+, going through radiotherapy after tonsillectomy and neck dissection.
Hi after five days of not using the duraphat toothpaste my water blisters are still the same so it can't be the SLS in the toothpaste. The blisters in my mouth are relentless and appear every single day. I used difflam today and gelclare but it's still...
Following on from my dubious PET scan in August, I had an ultrasound yesterday. Still no conclusive results. The x2 lymph glands in question were identifiable but the anomalies are still so small they weren’t viable for a needle biopsy. So we have to...
Hi just wee update on the duraphat toothpaste. I have been having water blisters from week three after RT. I'm now 16 weeks post RT so for 13 weeks I have been getting water blisters every day maybe even three four every day and they can be excruciatingly...
We finally heard today that my husband's treatment has been successful, which is the words that everyone just wants to hear. He got the call to confirm his treatment had been successful with no evidence of cancer in the areas treated, however a hotspot...
I've been told by an ENT consultant, that he wants to carry out a "Rigid Pharyngoscopy and Oesophagoscopy" under general aneasthetic and that "I've told the patient about the 1 in 100 change of oesophageal perforation". He also mentioned that there's...
Hi there Im new here and finished RT three months ago for neck cancer. Last week I said goodbye to Simon my PEG who had become part of me and a lifesaver when I had no appetite for anything inc water. Simon was my only way of keeping hydrated, food wasn...
