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Hello - I had a nephrectomy in April 2022 and started Immunotherapy in July. Unfortuantly after 4 treatments it had to be stopped as it had affected my lungs - which have since cleared. I had a CT scan in February and the renal cancer had spread to...
Hello. I have recently been diagnosed with a 10.5cm tumour in left kidney with spread to right kidney, lymph and both lungs. I am to have an ultrasound led biopsy under sedation on 31st May, has anyone had experience of this? My husband has Alzheimers...
Have just had my appointment with my Consultant Urologist after my CT Scan, for a 10cm Mass on my right kidney. Saw the CT scan on his PC screen and couldn't believe the size of it, compared to my normal left kidney. He is almost certain that it is...
Hi, My mum had a radical nephrectomy on the 14th of February 2022 - clear cell carcinoma. 95mm pT2a tumour. Leibovich score 4. In December 2023 she started to feel nauseous and lost her appetite, and also her belly started to swallow. She was diagnosed...
Hi spoke to the urologist a week ago, have 8cm tumor rt kidney. Had an MRI on my liver, but luckily it turned out to be a hemangioma. Yesterday I was driving back from town to home and started feeling a bit off, blurry vision, heart rate up, dizzy ...
I received my diagnosis yesterday from Urology Consultant that I have advanced kidney cancer. I have a 3cm mass in my right kidney which has spread to my liver (lesions), lymph nodes and spots on my lungs. I am still in shock and have gone into panic...
Feeling really low today. My journey started 3 years ago when a routine mammogram found i had breast cancer again after surviving it 17 years ago. The breast surgeon wanted me to have a CT scan, to check i had no other cancers. Results of the scan showed...
I’ve suffered with high blood pressure for a few years so been on meds to control it. Had the left kidney removed 6 weeks ago so now only firing on 1 cylinder. I was warned that the blood pressure might very well go up following the operation by my GP...
Just by chance I came across a really interesting interview with Dolph Lundgren talking about his kidney cancer which had been diagnosed in 2015. He’s just undergone surgery to remove some tumours from his liver. It’s worth looking at as it’s interesting...
hi all, I had a successful partial nephrectomy last December with good margins and put on the watch list. A few weeks ago I started to have a sore, itchy right nipple and then about a week ago I found a lump under it (I’m a 51 year old male by the way...
