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Hi all I had my operation on Thursday to remove my left kidney, it was keyhole and they had robots helping too. I’ve had to have a drain and that is causing me the most pain! Anyone else had one? I was supposed to go home yesterday but they gave me morphine...
Kidney cancer both kidneys
I had a fairly difficult year last year as my previous treatment slowly lost control of my cancer which slowly spread to several more places. As I have capillery renal cell cancer I know that this is a more aggressive and rare type of cancer. As my consultant...
Well tomorrow is the day for the appointment with my oncologist . I have taken some good advice here and I believe these appointments are actually quite short ‘10 to 15 mins or so . I will bring a notebook and will come armed with some questions but not...
Another silly question from me! . Letter to GP from hospital informing them that a lesion was found on the CT urology scan , it then said I would be sent for an another CT scan for staging. Is this normal or could they have seen the spread on the first...
Hello again guys. Just wondering how many of you out there are still working
Just wondering like my gross haematuria seems to be a common symptom for this disease but always an advanced one . Is there anyone on here that had gross haematuria but didn’t go right into a stage 4 diagnosis ? Thanks
Hi, I am trying to find as much as I can regarding symptons etc . I only had two episodes of gross haematuria as my symptom and have not had it since but I do have microscopic blood in my urine as I have dip tested it . I have noticed though that my urine...
Had the phone call today that the histology was back. There was chats that my 5cm mass in right kidney that was taking up most of the bottom and starting to be greedy with the renal pelvis space was possibly oncocytoma but also that it may not have...
Hi, so Ive had my scan and with bladder and prostate written off I should be positive but obviously my 2 episodes of gross haematuria has to have a reason so I am awaiting these results with trepidation. I have little doubt that my kidney will have a...
