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Being newly diagnosed, I am hyper-focused on those and they get pretty scary beyond stage 1
Hey everyone, my dad has stage 4 kidney cancer,- spread to lymph nodes and Mets on lungs, he's been told it isn't curable and we are now having appointments with palliative care team for pain relief etc he is on anxinitib, he had immunotherapy which didn...
Good Evening Everyone I have not been on here for some time. I had a nephrectomy in June last year, today I felt a hard swelling above my wound. I have just been to my urgent care centre as I was little concerned & after examination was told I had...
Hi All I had my Op on the 16th of May, so 11 days out. Spent a few days in hospital due to a catheter mishap of sorts. Had 5 keyholes, radical right side neph. 2 of the keyholes are for holding the liver up and out of the way. apparently you need...
I attended an appointment today to meet the consultant who will perform the surgery using the Da Vinci robot. I found this meeting really helpful and the consultant was very 'human'. It was described that the procedure would be a challenging one due...
I was diagnosed with kidney cancer with a large tumour on 28th October. I was 65 then played golf 2/3 days a week did yoga/meditation 3 times a week and looked after my wonderful grandsons -after school whilst mum and dad worked. kidney removed tumour...
I’m pleased to say that I had surgery yesterday. All went well and with the tumour they removed some nodules. These will be examined in the lab.I am relieved that it is over. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I was well dosed with anti sickness...
Just joined the group. Had radical nephrectomy on 17th April. PT3 NX - high risk of cancer returning Offered immunotherapy or 3 monthly CT scans to monitor return of cancer
I’m a 21F year old university student entering my third year. Yesterday I was told there is an 80% chance that the 3.1cm mass in my kidney is a malignant tumour. In January, I had a cholesystectomy to remove my gallbladder due to gallstones. I was hopeful...
So today’s the day I’m finally diagnosed. It will be nice to finally know what it is and what my plan is . Although my anxiety is going through the roof (pending doom ). I do hope that afterwards that my mind may calm down . I’ve been searching the site...
