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Hello Everyone. I’m a 49 female and yesterday had my first consultant appointment where I was told I had metastatic kidney carcinoma. I have a tumour in my left kidney (11cm) and this has spread to my lymph glands. I am utterly terrified. I have been...
Hi, I joined here a few weeks ago, thinking I had stage 1 kidney cancer.I am 61 years old. Details are on my profile page. I saw the urologist today and am stunned to be told I have Stage 4 kidney cancer, it's spread to both lungs already. They can...
I attended the Beatson today hoping I would be put on lev/evo combo tomorrow as Nivolumab failed. I was told my liver functions are not right due to a blockage between pancreas and liver so will need a stent to get liver function normal before I can start...
Hello all, I may be jumping the gun here but I am a 42 year old woman and I had abdominal pain and Dr sent me to get ultrasound and regular CT scan as I have unseen blood in urine and kidney stone history. They called back saying all sorts of big words...
Hi everyone, its been awhile from I was on. After my op in Feb of this year, everything seemed to be going well. Was still having niggly pains but now in the right-side as well. Keep having to get bloods repeated for liver function now too. Gallstones...
Hello. Diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma a couple of weeks ago. Had appointment with maxillofacial surgeon Monday to review CT and MRI scans with expectation of surgery later this month. But, Seems there is a tumour on my my left native kidney (my...
Hi, I have no clue about all of this and have been reading different posts about waiting for surgery? this has came as a bit of a shock to me as I thought of it was cancer they would remove it. The smaller the better I thought ? I have a 3.2cm tumour...
Hi everyone. I’ve not posted for a while as things have been quite settled lately. My hubby was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer with lung mets in March 2021 and has been on Axitinib and Avelumab since then. The first 12 months saw a dramatic reduction...
I thought this article would be of interest to people here, especially the nephrectomites. Pembro has been approved for adjuvant RCC in the UK (in Oct 2022) for "increased risk of recurrence" situations. It's the first adjuvant treatment approved for...
Can anyone tell me how long, on average did they wait for treatment when a tumour was discovered with CT and MRI please?
