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Hi how do I help my partner who's had small cell cancer in his lung for a few years. Been held back by chemo, recently diagnosed with lessons on his brain and gone downhill very quickly dispite wanting to fight it.
My husband has head and neck cancer and a spot on his lung. We were told last week that the chemo isn't working. There is another chemo he could try, but the chances of that working are less than the previous one. I've been laying in bed tonight picturing...
Hi all, Finished radiotherapy and chemo last week for neck and head cancer but still can't eat. Does anyone know how long it takes before that vile mucus stops in throat and normal eating can resume? Am currently barely surviving on peg feed!
Have had radiotherapy (x30) and chemo, but things are.just not getting better, Best I can eat is soups or scrambled eggs, because I had to have some teeth removed, leaving me with a top denture that doesn't fit, and no bottom teeth, and because of the...
30 radiotherapy and 2 chemotherapy since July and last rt was on 20 August I was told yesterday that my inability to swallow was because my gullet is so swollen that nothing will pass. Am I doomed to feeding with my peg tube? WATWILLY
As being a cancer patient, who is now waiting for my biopsy results, to see if it has returned.. I'm wondering if any of you have the same problem of having appointment way out of town. I don't have a car and transport is basically a no go. I live in...
Feeling useless to help him. He has really been through the mill already and is struggling. He is battling with having a feeding tube in tummy, sickness and dealing with being sick, trouble breathing, swallowing, losing weight and no energy. He...
Are there any people out there who have terminal head and neck cancer? I was told in May 2020 that the cancer in my mouth had returned and could not be cured as it was in too many places. Since then I have had various treatments to arrest the disease...
My consultation with the oncologist, to receive my PET/CT Scan results, today at 12 noon, was disappointingly cancelled due to “unforeseeable circumstances” at 2pm yesterday. I did explain to the secretary that I am on “tenterhooks” waiting to know the...
Sadly on Monday our meeting with the oncologist to review my husbands ongoing radiotherapy plan was not good. We have had a difficult weekend with me calling an ambulance and oxygen being delivered at midnight. So the oncologist has said my husband is...
