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Hi all hope you are all doing ok I have finally after 9 months got a date for my op, had to make a lot of calls and I have shed a lot of tears but having my surgery on the 8th November getting my line in for dialysis a couple of days before its really...
Forgive me posting a non cancer matter. Last year I hd two hba1c tests for diabetes and my results were said to be extremely high. Almost off the scale at 98. They went into major panic. Metformin, eye tests, foot test, consultations, nurse calls etc...
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Well, where do I start?? First off, thank you for your replies - hats off to Mumm for her usual practical advice. This morning, following last night's devastating news which left both Val and myself thinking we'd reached the 'Last Chance Saloon', we...
Since being diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer Which has moved to my lungs I feel so alone I don't know what to think or do ,my partner is very supportive and we are struggling with the situation Any advice Please help Daz
Sorry I have lost touch again. I have been in the doldrums, then scanxiety and the CT scan but slowly clawing my way out if that dark tunnel we find ourselves in now and then. I just seemed to drift from blood test one week to immunotherapy the next week...
Help! I need to find toothpaste that doesn't make me cry! Just started 2nd line drugs. Everolimus and Lenvatinib. I had mucositis with Axitinib before and its going to be a side effect of these too. My dentist prescribed a high fluoride toothpaste but...
I’ve just had appointment with oncologist. Pazopanib now not working and I’m to start on Nivolumab next week. Like to hear from anyone who has changed treatment to Nivolumab and how are they getting on with it.
Hi all At last I have had my op on the 13th, 7cm tumour removed, I'm currently still in hospital as there are compliction after the surgery, I was very poorly with stats up down all over the place. I was given another Cat scan with dye on the 16th...
Hi! My partner has stage 4 papillary kidney cancer. Diagnosed in 2020, had partial nephrectomy. Ok for a year then found it had spread to nearby lymph nodes and lungs. He was on Cabozantinib for 8 months, then Nivolumab immunotherapy for 5 months, but...
