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Hi, I have just been diagnosed with throat cancer, the consultant told me it is on my vocal cords and is pretty confident that he can remove most of it with surgery and then radiotherapy to get the remainder. Can anyone please help me to understand what...
Hi Everyone. Hope all well. Just a quick update. Had my additional biopsies last Tuesday to Lymph node and nasal space shich I am awaiting results from. Today a letter appeared in my NHS app from my consultant to my GP which I a am little confused...
Hi all. I came her a few weeks ago as my husband had just been told that he had cancer at the back of his tongue. After a long few weeks of tests we went to the MDT meeting on Thursday. He has stage 2 hpv+ with 2 lymph nodes on the same side affected...
Hello all My husband is now 9 months post treatment for base of tongue cancer, and he has the sticky mucus in his throat constantly. He also has the issue of feeling like the food is backing up in his throat and that he cant swallow it down...like he...
I just wanted to post an update 12 months on from my husband's diagnosis. He had a lump in his neck for a couple of months before and was eventually diagnosed with tonsil cancer that had spread to neck lymph nodes but nowhere else thankfully. Almost exactly...
Hello all. My last couple of posts have been about my having to have a permanent PEG after treatment 11 years ago for cancer of the lower tongue. I had just about come to terms with that and then on Friday 8days ago I had an appointment with maxio...
Hi I decided to go build a new support framework in the greenhouse Had to stop went so light headed. Had ltr drink and two fortisips. And a sleep feel fine now. Very strange. Wife says I’m not eating enough.
Hi everyone, I'm almost 9 months out from finish of Chemoradiation. I didn't have a lot of mucus like so many others have described, but over the past 2 months or so, mucus is building up in my throat over the course of the day, very difficult to expectorate...
Hi everyone. My husband finished his treatment on good friday . 2x chemo 30 Rads Hpv+ base of tongue SCC. Its been tough to say the least. Tbh though I think he's done really well as we have managed to keep the pain under control and he can still swallow...
Hi. I’ve posted on here before but have been offline for a long while ‘trying’ to get on with things. Long and short of it, in July 2022 during my 7th Oesophagus Dilatation (throat stretch) my Oesophagus was torn during the procedure. As a result, I had...
