Hello folks, My husband, aged 82 was in hospital recently for blood clots on the lungs. A CT scan to confirm this coincidentally picked up masses on his kidneys. This all began in November when he had a hernia op. He didn’t recover well at all so I...
Hi I had kidney cancer 3 years ago. Plus they found 3, nodules on my lungs. But said they seem ok that they just watch but on a routine scan they noticed they had grown. So tests began. One turned out to be carcinoid tumor but the opted to take right...
Whew am I glad I had this lesion removed when I did! I have been under active surveillance for two years. Constantly showing as a 2.7cm on the regular scans. Hadn't changed at all in size or form in the scans. I know that scans often cannot get the...
Hi all I'm 2 years post kidney removal I had tumor malignant on my right kidney tumor and half of kidney removed in constant pain in kidney like an ache. I'm back at doc all time they dip my urine say it's infected send sample off comes back clear...
Firstly, I would like to wish happy new year to everybody here. My main side effects initially were intermittent nausea and high blood pressure. Now, after 8 months of immunotherapy I have aching limbs which are not too bad and really quite a minor...
Has any one had a allergic reaction to immunotherapy my husband has twice now had to stop treatment he’s not allergic to anything that we knew of but today went terrible again we can’t catch a break not sure what else we could try it’s so heartbreaki...
Hi I’ve been on the forum for a few months and my profile has my history but in summary: I had a left nephrectomy in 2020 with cancer diagnosis. After removal I was told it was stage 2. I had yearly monitoring and got the all clear after each scan. ...
Hello, I had my right kidney which had a big lesion on it removed last Thursday. I am still in hosptial feeling really frustrated! They turned off my epidural on Saturday and the pain since has been really difficult and I feel really helpless with it...
My husband was diagnosed with stage 1 malignant cysts in February this year. We were told it wasn’t a rush to remove the kidney and could probably wait up to two years, we weren’t keen on that so the date was bumped up to today. The last scan 3 months...
Hi I’ve had metastatic clear cell RCC for the last two years with mets in my liver bowel pancreas.6 in total. lenvatinib was shrinking things initially but has stopped working now and I’ve had significant growth so I’m about to start Cabozantinib. ...
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