Hi my husband has had his first treatment of ipi/niv for secondary kidney cancer. After initially feeling ok the side effects have hit him like a ton of bricks. It's effecting his bowels causing pain and diarrhoea and due to this he's not managing to...
Hi, my husband is getting himself into a state because he was told by his oncologist he had two years to live. It’s now past that time and he can not understand why he is still here. We(his family and friends). Keep telling him not to think about that...
Hi Becks here! I had a diagnosis of kidney cancer on 3rd of February. I was told I would have a two to three week wait for a radical nephrectomy, adrenal gland and lymph nodes removal. Its nearly ten weeks on and still no sign of impending surgery....
Hello Everyone This is my first post to this group. My husband, Dell, has just been diagnosed with Stage 4 kidney cancer. He has a 8x9cm tumour on the kidney and scans have shown it’s spread to the lymph, adrenal, liver, lungs and spine. It has been...
Hello have been on 40mg cabozantinib now starting my fourth year on this treatment and was wondering how other patients was coping was side effects wish all well
Hi my name is Gill but my member name is “walksalone” I am very interested in the ancient North American Indians which is where this name comes from! My story is like many I had a few symptoms abdominal pain loss of appetite fatigue which led to me having...
Hi only a few weeks ago I went for a scan on my bowel which turned out to be fine. But they had noticed something wrong with one of my kidneys. I was surprised as I had no symptoms at all. I saw the urologist and he showed me a tumour over my kidney 5...
My husband has just been diagnosed with kidney cancer having had 3 weeks of investigations for lymphoma. He has gone downhill rapidly and is not managing to eat much, and from being an active 66 year old now has trouble walking around the house. He is...
Hi everyone Thank you for allowing me to join this group i have recently been diagnosed with renal cancer and am waiting for surgery to remove my kidney also because my other kidney is not good I will have to go straight onto dialysis I am really...
Wife went for a colon CT at beg March and we found out last week she has cancer on a kidney. No appointment with urologist yet but will chase tomorrow. GP read the CT report over the phone as the letter from the hospital had got lost. Tumour appears...
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