Hi everybody. I’m a 72 yr old male who experienced kidney stones last June. Apparently there was a narrowing of the Ureter which stopped the stone passing and it was found to be Urothelial Carvinoma. The intention was then to remove the right kidney and...
Hello, I’m new to this group. I was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2019 (found while being investigated for a different problem, which I’m told is not uncommon). I had a partial nephrectomy to my left kidney, and the tumour was removed successfully....
Hello This is my first post. Diagnosed with kidney cancer August last year. Full nephrectomy. It all came as a big shock and surgery happened very quickly. A few months after surgery my mental health started to decline. I also suffer severe bowels...
Hi everyone, I had a radical open nephrectomy 7 weeks ago after a CT scan showed a 80mm tumour on the right kidney. I am a 51 year old woman with no health issues until now! Keen to get back to my normal life, going back to work and exercising (swimming...
Keen to hear people's experience on Pazopanib. 800mg knocked me sideways. Now down to 200mg but still multiple side effects. Had a break but tumors grew. Anyone been on intermittent dosage, every other day or two weeks on two weeks off? Love to hear
Hello all after 5 years of Cabo have just been told by the consultant that cancer has spread to my sternum so waiting to start immunotherapy. wasn't told much more than that by Consultant who seemed in a awful rush so I got more info from my lovely...
I had my left kidney removed 15.3.2026, it had a cancer lesion on it. Now I'm waiting for immunotherapy. This years been rocky to say
Hi all. I am new here, so forgive me if I am not following etiquette correctly. I am interested to see whether anyone else here has suffered from severe dry eyes as a result of immunotherapy treatment. I am currently receiving an infusion of nivolumab...
Hi everyone, having been told just 2 weeks ago during a meeting with my consultant that I'm a good candidate for immunotherapy for my grade 3, stage 2 PT2, a few weeks ago when my CNS told me my pathology results of the above, plus my tumour was an aggressive...
Hi I am Dave and have Renal cancer with cervical spine and thoracic spine metastasis I had life saving surgery a year ago removing my C4 and having it replaced with a metal cage and supporting rods from C2 to C6 i have had radiotherapy to my neck...
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