People of any background, gender identity or sexual orientation etc can be diagnosed with cancer. Please be welcoming and supportive when talking to others.
We keep this a safe space for everyone. To find out more, take a look at our Community Guidelines.
On Saturday, as luck would have it three days before my first face to face for three months, I began to develop a really sore throat with the feeling I couldn’t swallow. Like most of us, I’m guessing, I was quite anxious about this as recovery at month10...
First of all I just want to thank all of those who have taken the time to reply to my previous post about my Dad, this is a wonderful forum with wonderful people and I wish you all the very best in your treatments and recovery. My wonderful brave Dad...
My husband had a CT scan a couple of weeks ago after experiencing pain and difficulty opening his mouth - all of this came after a cough and cold Our GP prescribed antibiotics and the ENT consultant arranged the scan We've had a call today and my...
Hi again everyone hope everyone is doing as well as they possibly can be, just wanted to update you on how things have gone since I was last on here. So, after 17 blissful cancer free years (or so I thought) I have been once again bitten by the beast...
Hi all I have not been on here for a while as we were getting on with our lives after 2nd lump removed from tongue Mar 20 and first lump in 2018 being removed from neck followed by radio therapy and chemo we were told after 2nd surgery that they didn...
Hi everyone I had surgery for a benign tumour on a minor salivary gland on palate, had complications of bleeding and oronasal fistula. All healed now but tumour post op confirms Adenoid cystic carcinoma. No spread. I’m having most my palate removed...
Hi everyone, I’ve only posted a couple of times but thought I should say hello properly. I was diagnosed last August with squamous cell carcinoma of tongue. I started to think my mouth felt a bit odd in April but we were in lockdown and dentists were...
Hi Everyone my boyfriend has been given the good news he’s in remission we would like to go away for a few days to have some us time abroad but we are struggling to find any companies that will give us travel insurance. Does anybody have any suggestions...
Completed 1st week of radio and 1st dose cisplatin feel really nauseous and headache back of neck face oedematus is this normal???
Hi everyone, I'm due to have a biopsy on my anterior tonsillar pillar soon. I'm having a general anesthetic. I didn't really know where to ask this, I'm obviously hoping it's not cancer. Just wondered if anyone had a biopsy in this particular place. Don...
