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Hi All I've recently been diagnosed with a grade 1 4.5 cm tumour in my right kidney and been added to the waiting list in Lothian for a full nephrectomy. This isn't my first brush with cancer as over the last 8 years I've had 3 separate cancers in...
My partner had a full nephrectomy in 2022 aged 42 due to a 15cm tumour being found on his right kidney. Thankfully he's been cancer free since then, made a full recovery and been living a normal life. Today he received his routine ct scan results over...
Hello everyone, I've just joined as my partner had a CT scan that did not look right, so he then had to have another CT scan with dye and a nuclear scan - after waiting 2 weeks it he was diagnosed with kidney cancer (possibility in ureter also) by phone...
Hello! Back in June a CT for a colon infection noted an incidental finding of a mass on my left kidney which was removed in August and confirmed at my post surgery review to be a ccrcc which was contained with no spread but also grade 4. How do people...
Hi, I have been having issues with flank pain since 20th September and after numerous Urgent care and A&E visits I eventually had an abdominal ultrasound which picked up a heterogenous mass on my left kidney indicative of RCC. My GP sent the urgent referral...
Im not new here & ive posted on a few different threads for advice but ive yet to find anyone in similar situation seem to be struggling a bit just lately, In may 2023 I had my left kidney removed after a large tumor was found & i was told it had Chromophobe...
Hi, I’ve recently (well 2 days ago) had a call from my consultant regarding my CT scan result as I have two hernias in my abdomen. I was expecting to hear what type of operation I would be having. Totally unprepared to hear I have a growth in my right...
Hi there, I am new to the group as only diagnosed around 7/26. Prior to that, I went to and from GP who informed nothing wrong with me, so eventually went private and paid around £2.5k. having all necessary tests which confirmed mass on right kidney...
Honestly don’t know where I belong, I was diagnosed with kidney and ureter cancer as tumor was in my kidney and tube, radical neprecuretomy later, results came back that the cancer was actually utuc which is apparently bladder cancer what was in my kidney...
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