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Hi My 8 year old son was diagnosed with a Wilms Tumour on the 20th June. The last 5-6 weeks have been a complete haze. From initially being admitted to hospital with a swollen tummy and temerature to where we are now. He has had a central line inserted...
Hi, new to all this, husband diagnosed just before Xmas and waiting for kidney removal....seems to be taking forever to get a date :/ Feels like I'm staring into a black hole....
Hello, my 1 year old daughter has recently started this awful journey of treatment for bilateral (stage 5) Wilms tumor. She’s having 12 weeks of chemo to shrink the growths then she’ll have nephron- sparing surgery. I’m so stressed and overwhelmed! She...
Hi, just curious how old people are. I’m 39 and will be having nephrectomy on Wednesday.
Hi I have kidney cancer with secondaries in my lungs. I start immunotherapy next week. I am also going to be taking Lenvatinib and Pembrolizumab. I saw my Consultant and he says owing to my celiac, my cancer pathway is going to be particularly rough....
Hi all, very new to the forum. Im a 52 year old male. About a week ago I had blood in my urine. Initially my GP thought it was a UTI, but on Monday night I had huge pain on my left hand side and my urine was deep red. I went to A&E on the advice from...
Hi I wonder if anyone has had this problem, my husband has kidney cancer in both kidneys that has metastasised in his lungs, he was told in November he was anemic and they weren't sure if to give him a blood transfusion but being him he said it was ok...
Well, my little rufus and Lydia were removed last February but not before they send their baby off spring to my lungs. Nodules are largest 5 mm. I saw the oncologist many many months ago about immunotherapy but it was decided at the time not to go down...
All us cancer sufferers, whether on treatment or not suffer some level of fatigue. For years I suffered from chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia and sorted my life into one day at work 2 in bed. But this cancer fatigue is so very different. I am 12 months...
It’s a while since I’ve been on here, so I’ll describe my situation. 2011 I found I’d got prostate cancer. In determining if it had spread (it hadn’t) they found I’d got RCC. A partial nephrectomy followed, and then hormone treatment and radiation for...
