Good evening all, I had open lung surgery on 16th March at Basildon Hospital, everything that could go wrong did, I was sent home after six days but within a few days of being home I could not breath, it materialised that I had blood clots in my non...
Hello everyone, 10 weeks ago I was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. aAter being referred for a bronchoscopy, it is believed some of the numbing agent got into my lungs and the procedure had to stop. I was then referred to A & E and spent two week in...
Hi. my eldest brother has been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer after suffering from penial cancer last year. He has been told that he doesn't have long left and myself and our dad is the only family he has. He lives with our dad who is in his 80's...
Hi All, I just wanted to chat to people who feel like I do . I had my op on 21st April , spent 10 days in hospital as I had an air leak. I have now been home 2 weeks, had a few bad times in them 2 weeks , almost all of my aching is gone now , but...
Hello and apologies if I’ve asked this question before. After 18 months of watching lung lesions, CT and Pet Scans and 2 bronchoscopies I was told I had numerous nodules, mostly cut glass but 3 were concerning as over the 18 months they’d grown. I was...
two weeks ago I had a bronchoscopy with a biopsy performed. Two days ago my oncologist called to tell me it was limited stage small cell lung cancer Yesterday I met with her and she's setting up chemo for Monday using Cistplatin and Etoposide for my cocktail...
Hi everyone hope you are all doing well, I had 3/4s of my upper left lobe removed 6 weeks ago and was wondering if anyone has had this same problem, my nose and throat is constantly bunged up and m es it hard to breathe and I can't sit back on the sofa...
Just got diagnosis of adenocarcinoma in right lung. Very anxious told two weeks to see surgeon then maybe 3 more weeks till operation. So much time has been wasted as I started symptoms April 22 gp dismissed everything till finally got X-ray october...
Hello all. New to the group with Non Small Cell Lung Cancer(NSCLC) stage IA - T2AN0M0. On NeoAuduara clinical trials. Just completed right lower lobe removed by Robotic Assisted Thoracic Surgery(RATS). Have been recovering, so far well.
Hi all We're on our second cancer journey, this time with mum, aged a very young 68!. We lost dad to Bowel cancer suddenly at the start of 2016, so our experience of this disease is a very negative one. Mum was diagnosed with SCLC in October 2022...
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