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Hello, thank you for taking a minute to read this. I am currently feeling really emotional after a a&e trip to hospital with my mam. They have found the heartbreaking discovery of tumours on both lungs and have advised it is secondary. Our family are...
Hello has anyone else received this treatment. I have recently had my first. Just wondering about side effects
Hello everyone, a short story of my cancer treatment. I was diagnosed with metastic adenocarcinoma - penciast, apical lung lesion, scf lymphadenopathy bone metestases with lesions c3-c5, t10/12, 8cy. I don't understand the medical language although I...
Hi my husband is stage 4 lung cancer, deposits in shoulder,adrenal glands and lymph nodes. I know the prognosis isn’t good and we are dealing with this the best way we can. He is very week, is sleeping most of the time and suffering with pain in his...
Hi everyone, I have just recently had a blood test at my local surgery and the doctor told he found a shadow on my lung besides other things like a swollen liver, vitamin B12 deficiency, prediabetes and a couple of other things. I didn't actually...
Hi to everyone that knows me or recognises my posts, it comes with a Heavy heart to write this , my mum passed away at 11pm 25/11/23. , but I want to give every one of you hope, there is always hope. My mum has been traveling this journey for nearly...
Hey, I have been diagnosed with sclerosing pneumocytoma. It seems to be rare. And benign, with the chance it can change. I met the surgeon yesterday, who has basically given me the choice to have surgery to remove it, or leave it and monitor. I...
My 85 year old mum hss been on tagrison for her lung cancer she has no appetite feeling sick and sometimes has diarrhoea. She has been on this pill for 3 months.Has anybody been on this pill and had similar symptoms or any advise. Thanks
7 years after being successfuly treated for breast cancer, with no spread, I was shocked to be diagnosed with a recurrence in my lungs with bone mets. I had developed a cough from April 2023 and my GP thought it was acid reflux as I had intermittent stomach...
I am on my 4th imunatherpy jab next time and I wonder if anybody is getting night sweats as a side afect I have been having them and wondering if anyone else are having them I have told nurses all they say is keep an eye on it
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