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Hi , not new but been a while , Was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2021 had my right kidney removed in may 2021 ,after my first CT scan in August found several small tumours in both lungs and started 6 months of immunotherapy which slowed the progression...
Hello, I was wondering if anybody in here has had a large tumour ‘mine was 14 cm’ but did not receive a grade 4 after pathology. I’m convinced that mine will be grade 4 just because of its size. Dont get me wrong , it is what it is at the end of the day...
I’m a 39 year old female, went to the doctors with a feeling of a mass in my right side. Had an ultrasound showing a tumour of 10cm, I’ve seen the urologist who strait away is saying it’s cancer and that I will need my kidney removed and that I need a...
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Nearly 4 weeks post surgery. yesterday I went out and did food shopping. forgot about the heavy bags which I carried into house. Today I feel totally drained. Exhausted and aching all over
So following my nephrectomy (clear cell renal cancer), and the follow up with the oncologist, I was told I'm in the intermediate risk group, since the mass they removed had infiltrated my left renal vein a lot but hadn't breached, but I likely had those...
Not bad, two nights in hospital and they have let me out . Chill time
I have a 5cm mass in my left kidney that my doctor says is fully contained within in the kidney. I was sent for a biopsy to confirm it was cancer. The biopsy results came back with the biopsy is consistent with low grade renal cell carcinoma. With positive...
Ye so surgeon just came round and told me Op went well yesterday which was good . He told me he would book me a scan in about six weeks to decide on further treatment . Anyone else had the same. ?
Hi My husband had a MRI for his hip then this followed. 18th Feb......We can see a 10cm kidney tumour that they confirmed by only the MRI. They also told him he had lung nodules that were also cancerous. 27 Feb ....CT scan showed also Adrenal...
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