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I’ve just gone through breast cancer treatment and during a CT scan they found a massive 9cm kidney tumour and I don’t know whether it’s cancer yet. CT scan showed nothing else outside of the kidney but they described it as “massive”. I’m now back in...
After suffering renal cancer resulting in a radical nephrectomy back in 2017 I had a mestasis of the original renal cancer cells 2 years later. In June 2019 a periodic scan pick this up and I was put on Pazopanib which I am still taking. Due to an increase...
Hello I am new here. Eight days ago my Mum received a diagnosis of incurable kidney cancer. She had been under the urologists at a local hospital for four years for suspected kidney stones. She was asymptomatic and they were found when having investigations...
Hi all, My husband was diagnosed with renal cancer in Feb and his tumour has grown in his VC vein. At the moment he is having immunotherapy and anti cancer drugs With possible surgery in the autumn. I miss him (he's here but life is so different in...
Hi Everyone, My husband is just starting on his journey with Kidney cancer and I'm trying to understand not only his diagnosis and treatment but how I can help him. He is 63 and has always been relatively fit and healthy just suffering with High Blood...
Hi, I am new here and just wondering is anyone else with the same type of cancer here. I found some mass inside of my right side last October. I had a right open radical nephrectomy in February, The hystology result came back in May (15 weeks after...
Hi I have just been diagnosed with a cancerous kidney tumor and have to have the right kidney removed. Obviously been a very anxious time as have been waiting 3 weeks for initial CT results. Now waiting to be transferred to a different hospital for further...
Hi i had my surgery in 2020 may and now since couple weeks i really feel pain in exactly same place , its feel like kidney and im really scared .Im waiting for my ct scan result i had last week on friday but im really scare and anxios , have anybody had...
I'm due to have a radical nephrectomy on Wednesday, I'm very anxious as it's a 16cm cancerous tumour, which doesn't appear ro have travelled anywhere! I haven't been told too much other than I might loose my spleen also and all the other issues of course...
At the end of May it was confirmed by the Urology professor that I have a 43mm RCC on my only kidney and he ordered a PET scan to check my lymph nodes as there was some inflammation in some of the surrounding ones showing on the CT scan. I am still...
