Hello - I’m new to this group. On 27/11/23, I was diagnosed with Kidney/Renal Cancer, as a CT Scan carried out to check for Bowel Cancer, had shown a lesion on my left kidney. Further CT Scans of the Renal area, showed that the lesion was in fact a small...
Hi just joined so wanted to say hello. Like many I guess I have found out by chance and waiting for an operation to remove a tumour. I feel grateful in many ways that they have found this in my kidney but so scared of the operation and process...
Hi I've just joined. I wasn't sure whether to because I dint want to be focusing on my illness all the time but having looked, I can see there's some useful info and it would be nice to get some support and hopefully give some too at some point!
Hello to my KC family . This is my story. My kidney tumour was discovered accidentally I was being scanned for gallbladder trouble(I thought). My kidney was removed 9 weeks ago. I was expecting that to be the end of it so I was shocked to find out that...
Hi Folks My husband has stage 4 renal cancer, 13 cm tumour removed by open radical neph 12 days ago. His recovery has been really tough so far. Out of hospital within 2 days, pain been bad and difficult to control. Appetite almost nil with half a stone...
Hello all, I've just been diagnosed with a 7cm Tumour on my right kidney. Having read some of the threads my story is very similar to many of your stories. The tumour was found accidentally during a lung CT scan, my lungs were clear thank goodness...
Hi I'm new here . Have just started immunotherapy 2 weeks ago and wondering what experiences others have on adjuvant pembrolizumab. I've had my left kidney removed in Sept as I was diagnosed with papillary renal cell carcinoma with sarcomatoid. And apparently...
A year ago tomorrow I was diagnosed with upper urotract cancer, at the time the prognosis did not look good, but the amazing urology and oncology teams at my local hospital looked after me through chemo and major surgery to come out the other side cancer...
Hello to all friends. Second week today after left kidney removal. Day by day getting better just had bit trouble with my tommy but now back almost to normal .jus some time wen I walking bit extra I got less brief but as soon I led down on short time...
One week on from having left kidney removed feeling ok just at times want to cry but i feel positive had to go to doctors as have a slight infection in one of the wounds is this common
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