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Hi all and thanks for reading. My partner has just been diagnosed with secondary liver cancer, metastcised (!?) from his lung. It is small cell cancer so pretty aggressive, he had an op to remove the tumor from his lung and 'mop up' chemo but unfortunately...
My wife was told on Monday that she has secondary liver cancer from the results of her ultrasound. She has no cancer markers in her blood. But I think one lesion is 7 cm. She is having a CT scan next Thurs. I have read one person's post on here, whose...
Hello. I just wondered if anyone could offer any advise. I am so afraid for my husband who has had a tumour removed from his bowel and has now been told he has liver cancer. Waiting to hear if we can try chemo to reduce the cancer to then remove part...
Mum has had 6 rounds of chemo and is really suffering with a cetuximab rash all over her face . This is really knocking her confidence and making her last months harder than ever and am trying to reach out for any advise anyone has got to help my poor...
Hi I got told 4 weeks ago that I had secondary liver cancer. I have had a liver biopsy and a PET scan as they are trying to find the primary. I am now booked in for further blood tests and another liver biopsy. I am anxious as I am not getting any...
Hi there my hubby went to drs in may with pain in his left side was told it was skeletal muscular and told to take pain killers and exercise pain persisted and we went to drs in June and asked for scans they couldn’t scan the ribs told again it was muscular...
Hi, I hope you are all well. My mum had Bowel ccancer2013 that progressed to liver mets 2016 and lung met 2017( although only slightly progression in lungs ) Recently I was told her there has been a progression in her liver mets and slightly in...
Hi, Please bear with me as I am new to this support network. My dad is a retired GP who was working as a very health medical consultant until the age of 73. He is currently 75 and was in April this year diagnosed with stage 4 cancer of the gall bladder...
Hi All, I am looking for some advice really, a close relative of mine has been diagnosed with stage 4 oesophageal cancer about 6 weeks ago. He has recently developed swollen legs beneath the knee and very yellow eyes. We were told upon diagnosis that...
Hi, I wanted to come on here to vent my feelings and to share with someone else who may be going through the same situation as me. I’m 29 and in december 2020 my dad got diagnosed with cancer in his lymph nodes at the age of 67. 9 months on I still...
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