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Hi, My husband was diagnosed with throat cancer, right Vallecula SCC with right neck metastatic disease p16 positive squamous cell carcinoma, in November 2021. He has finished his chemo and radiotherapy and all things point to it having been successful...
Hi looking for any tips on food and drink. I’m 5 weeks into radiotherapy and have NG tube, feeding overnight. I really want to eat and drink but struggling with pretty much all food. Hot chocolate is the only thing that goes down well. Fizzy drinks...
Hi All My husband had a neck lump for a few months and after much nagging from me - he started this journey at the beginning of this year. He has had: 2 x Neck Ultrasound 2 x MRI with contrast 1 x neck biopsy 1 x MRI 1 x PET Scan At first...
Hi everyone, I had my operation just over a year ago to take me jaw out and do me another one out me leg bone,I never knew I had two bones in the bottom of me leg hahahaha well to cut a long story shaft the recovery has been total shit,I’ve never been...
Hi, I am 29, Female. I had a lump cut out of my cheek on the 15th of March, I was in yesterday for my results which was given as a salivary gland cancer. Which hit my like a bus and I did not expect. I had no other symptoms other than a hard lump which...
Hi All I met with MDT team today ... whilst sat waiting for my appointment, my phone rang and it was the hospital ,( that I am sat in lol) wanting to book my mask fitting... so this is now booked for next Wednesday followed immediately by a CT scan...
What a whirlwind, first oncology appointment yesterday , they were so nice & reassuring .On the way home I got a call from them saying they had booked me for a CT scan for today , went for that they also made my mask & did blood tests all in half an hour...
Hi , just back from oncologist, been told that it is rare rare cancer and outcomes are poor. any advice please
Hello all I was diagnosed in December with H and N cancer, HPV +, primaries identified in base of tongue, secondaries in neck. In January I had a tonsillectomy even though the Scans had not identified any cancer at this site. Has anyone else had this...
I was first diagnosed with a pleomorphic adenoma on the inside of my right cheek in 1985 which was removed from within the mouth. Ten years later in 1995 I noticed a swelling just underneath my right jaw and after a FNA my right side submandibular salivary...
