My husband has been diagnosed with this we are currently in a bubble it doesn't feel real. He went intially due to shortness of breath the scan picked up narrowed artery in his heart but also showed a significant tumour in the bottom of his lung which...
Hi everyone my dad got diagnosed in August with sclc with mets the doctor said he has months. Which is already hard enough to digest. right now he has stopped eating and doesn’t really leave his bed much. I spoke to his gp who came to check on him...
My mum is a beautiful 61 yo lady, no symptoms til recently, after a trip to A&E in January for a chest pain we were finally told it was lung cancer on 6th March, then on 14th March told there was pleural effusion and fluid in lining of lungs which needed...
My husband who has never smoked was recently diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. It was a complete shock and we are still trying to come to terms with it. He starts radiotherapy in a week’s time and I believe he will have chemotherapy or other treatment...
My beautiful we mum was diagnosed with a 6.5cm tumour on her lung on the 13/10/25 since then she has had her biopsy and is now waiting on a pet scan they have told her they can’t operate, My mum lives with us now snd at the moment I am off work so I...
Hello,I have decided to open new thread,to share our experience.On September my husband had high temperature,and cough,than he was coughing with blood,he went to AE and xray showed some abnormalities.To cut story short,he did all ct scans Pet scans and...
Hello, I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Lung Cancer which had spread to my abdomen two and a half years ago. Never smoked so it came as a complete shock. I was started on Osimertinib which, after initial problems, settled and I have been consistently told...
Hello. I was diagnosed in September 2025 with Lung cancer and secondaries in my liver, bone and adrenal glands. I had a traumatic liver biopsy which failed and refused a lung biopsy , unwilling to go through a similar experience again, considering...
Hello All, I am new here and recently diagnosed (June) with lung, liver, brain, adrenal & bone so unfortunately, stage 4. At only 57 I am yet to be blessed with grandchildren but we have a wedding next year so hoping this will be the next step. i am...
New here and it has all come as a complete shock. I was due a breast reconstruction following a double mastectomy. My surgeon requested a scan before surgery saying only that he had seen a nodule on my lung and wanted to check it out. Went for follow...
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