Hi My 8 year old son was diagnosed with a Wilms Tumour on the 20th June. The last 5-6 weeks have been a complete haze. From initially being admitted to hospital with a swollen tummy and temerature to where we are now. He has had a central line inserted...
Hi, just curious how old people are. I’m 39 and will be having nephrectomy on Wednesday.
Hi I have kidney cancer with secondaries in my lungs. I start immunotherapy next week. I am also going to be taking Lenvatinib and Pembrolizumab. I saw my Consultant and he says owing to my celiac, my cancer pathway is going to be particularly rough....
It’s a while since I’ve been on here, so I’ll describe my situation. 2011 I found I’d got prostate cancer. In determining if it had spread (it hadn’t) they found I’d got RCC. A partial nephrectomy followed, and then hormone treatment and radiation for...
Hi I’ve just had my kidney removed, I had to go back for results in few weeks but they did confirm it was cancer grade 1. I was just wondering how people are after surgery? Did you notice it had an impact on any daily activities ? Or restrict food or...
Hi, I've posted here before and since then my husband's finally seen a Urology consultant and is to see the Oncologist this coming Monday. It's been a long wait so we both feel weirdly relieved at finally being able to get some answers. He's been diagnosed...
Hi, i keep seeing people have an L score, can someone let me know what it is and why some peoole have it and some dont. Cant seem to find anything about it online. Thanks
Hello all. I think I had posted a while ago now. When my husband was first told there was a tumour in his kidney. he has since has a radical neph and we got the results yesterday. A part of us was hoping it would be benign. PT1b grade 3 with L score...
Hi. I am four days out of hospital following a radical Nephrectomy (laparoscopic) on 19th September to remove my left kidney, which contained a 6cm tumour (biopsy results not yet known). It was all contained within the kidney and CT scans showed no further...
Hi, I found out I have a tumour on my right kidney back in September whilst having an ultrasound on my gall bladder. It was decided that I would have a partial nephrectomy and a cholecystectomy at the same time. However I am still waiting for a date...
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