Just wanted to share some positive news. My Mum had her CT scan results today after 6 months of treatment (which we weren’t expecting) . She had some small shrinkage in her primary tumour and her lymph nodes. No new sites of cancer. It took us by surprise...
Hello everyone, My mum had stage three bowel cancer five years ago which was successfully treated with surgery and chemo. She's been having yearly scans since then, and the latest one has picked up a nodule on her lung. No other symptoms at all, and...
After my bowel resection Aug 21 reversal Sep 22 lung cancer lobectomy March this year and a trip to Spain I started to feel well. Today I’m back wheezing and coughing feeling really miserable. I was booked for an MOT yesterday but I was cancelled...
Yesterday my mum and I had an appointment with the oncologist and she has decided to stop my mum's treatment, she was due her second infusion on Monday. My mum's not well enough to keep going, she's heartbroken as she knows that's it, we were told without...
Hi. I have recently had an upper right lobectomy following the discovery of a 3cm nodule/mass. CT and PET scans showed it as malignant but that it had not spread to anywhere else. Location meant it was impossible to biopsy until the operation. I am still...
Hi, I'm looking for some suggestion regarding my close relative currently not in UK. He’s 44 years old, diagnosed with Metastatic Non-small cell carcinoma, Adenocarcinoma with foci of squamous diff in March 2023. The treatment started with 1 session...
After my second chemo/immunotherapy session (15th May - treatment once every three weeks) I ended up spending the weekend in hospital as I couldn't keep anything, literally anything, down. Monday August 17th I had my fifth treatment. This treatment dropped...
I was diagnosed with primary breast cancer then that the lung lumps were also primary. Palbociclib was keeping the 3 breast lumps in check so I had the lower lobe of my left lung removed and two rounds of chemo which was halted when I had to have an infected...
Hi, bad news yesterday for my dad who has been battling lung cancer since February. It has now spread to his back/bones which explains what the pain is. He is in great pain and when he went to a&e Tuesday because of the pain was that bad, they sent him...
We recently found out my mum has lung cancer. They have said it is advanced, agressive and has spread I think to her liver, spleen and she has bone mets. She has had a bronchoscopy (I think) and a biopsy and has met with the consultant and was given the...
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