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New here, its not me that's had diagnosis but my sis. Its been quite a journey for her since July this year, immense pain that was treated as a urine infection at first. Sent to A&E at beginnig of August to be given an ultrasound that determined a small...
Hi All, I joined the onesie club on 14 July. It's not been an easy recovery. Despite laparoscopic surgery I was left with 3 holes and a big slice to get the treacherous righty out. And it got infected, but is fine now. In the last month, I developed a...
Hey everyone, just a quick question. Where any of you given advice on what to avoid when eating after loosing a kidney? I'm trying to lose weight but finding it really hard as I'm getting older and menopausal. Was just reading an article on macros and...
My partner is taking Fortivda for his advanced kidney cancer. He was told he would be having immunotherapy earlier but then they changed. I have read that immunotherapy is more successful than chemo for treatment of kidney cancer. I just feel he isn’t...
Has anyone been poorly during immunotherapy treatment
Hello gang, l am back on an old theme, which is the random exhaustion and depression. I am out of chemo, "GEM/CIS" with Stage 4 kidney cancer and touching spine and invaded PSOS muscle. Diagnosed a year ago received 8 doses of the chemo which ended in...
Last post before I leave. 8 weeks post op & I had my follow up appointment with the consultant. 'completely benign ...... no follow up needed' and that was that! It may take a while to process after 6 months of believing that I had cancer, but...
I am 5 weeks post surgery . Kidney & ureter removed. Very blessed that tumour was non aggressive. Will need immunotherapy treatment. Recovery from surgery going well. Had severe post op complications. Pneumonia & sepsis. Horrific setback. Discharged...
Hi all, I haven’t posted on here before, but have been advised that this forum may be able to help me. Please bear with me it’s quite a complex situation- My mum had ovarian cancer in 2021 then was later diagnosed with a rare appendix cancer (goblet cell...
Hi all I'm Mark. I had a partial nephrectomy in January of this year. I had scans about 8 or 9 weeks ago, I haven't heard anything back from them. When they first found the cancer on my left kidney they said there was a speck on my lung. I was told that...
