Hello Does anybody have experience of bowel cancer metastasizing to the lung viia other organs? What treatments were offered? Success? My husband's 1st 2 treatments had him in 1st time for pulmonary edema then mouth/throat ulcers. 2nd treatment...
I saw the oncologist yesterday he gave me some good news - following the chemotherapy and radiotherapy the tumour in my left lung has reduced from 7cm to 4cm. I start immunotherapy next Wednesday monthly for 12 months. Hopefully that will encourage more...
The last 6 weeks have been very difficult, since I had meeting with the oncologist to hear the results of the path lab analysis, following my RML lobectomy. In hospital I had been told that the surgery had gone well, so expected to hear either a) no lymph...
Hi all, i have been diagnosed with carcenoid lung cancer, and am awaiting a date.for surgery. Can anyone tell me if this humid hot weather makes you cough more. The last 2 days have been coughing a lot more and making my chest really ache.
Hello! I have been posting in the ‘New’ forum but perhaps I should be here? I no longer know what to think or do. Unbelievably my wait continues, 17 weeks after my initial diagnosis I am no closer to getting treatment. I still haven’t seen anyone about...
52 year old woman feeling like a wimp. Had video assisted left upper lobe trisegmentectomy with cryogenics in September 25 for Stage 2a non-small cell lung cancer. Was very lucky to not need adjuvant treatment. Did all my prehab and rehab, healthy...
I had my right middle lobe removed aprox 5 years ago , but this week I was informed that the cancer is back on the siture line , and they are looking at doing another surgery perhaps to remove top and bottom lobe , does anyone have any experience with...
My husband still in hospital, still on full strength dexamethasone...confusion comes & goes. Yesterday he didnt know my name or who I was. All this absolutely hell in just over week, not one sign nor symptom. Never knowing what I'm facing one day to...
I'm due to have one in a fortnight at Birmingham. They will do a biopsy at the same time. Has anyone had the same procedure?
August 2025 - cough that wouldn’t go away accompanied by bringing up mucous which was always white or creamy. I could hear a creaking sound when I exhaled at night. 31 October 2025 x-ray after GP visit. Advised it was an infection probably pneumonia...
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