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Hello everyone, on behalf of my wife, we are so pleased to be back on the community forum. So a little bit of history about my wife, after the diagnosis, Brenda had Radiotherapy & Chemotherapy. Went into Remission Oct 2016. So from there, Brenda was having...
I was poorly all over November and December with a terrible cough and flu like symptoms. Contacted the Dr's numerous times x rays show pneumonia. A and e visit as in agony on right side, 2nd xray was worse antibiotics not working. CT scan the following...
Hi,my Father was diagnosed with lung cancer that's untreatable beginning of December 2023. He is 82 and has been given approximately 7 to 10 months. We are caring for him at home with different nurses etc involved. The thing is I'm so confused by it all...
Hi My nan has just been diagnosed with small cell lung cancer they have told her it is not curable. She can have chemo to give her around 12months of life or without she is looking at 4 to 6months. I'm asking for any advice/experience of having chemo...
Hi, I haven't posted before. Has anyone experience of lung cancer not as a tumour, but in the fluid in the lung? My wife started to have breathing difficulties in September and an x-ray showed fluid in the lung. By the time she was referred to hospital...
Ok well i try and not read in to the it is this or that but today got a letter from the surgeon over the lung i had removed and they have some staging on it i wonder can anyone tell me what these mean i will try and ring my macmillian nurse tomorrow as...
Hi everyone, I've eventually got a date for my lobectomy after what seems a long wait, (it's probably not) and I'm starting to get nervous. Has anyone any advice about how to keep calm in the run up to surgery. Thanks in advance
After feeling breathless for a few months my sister finally persuaded me to go to the doctor and X-ray in November then follow up X-ray 2nd Jan and CT scan a few days later show I have a 1.8cm speculated tumor in right lung. Doctor thinks it is cancer...
Hello everyone This week my mum has been diagnosed with small cell lung cancer , it seems it’s only in her left lung but the tumour is already 7 cm doctor said that it has not spread to other body parts, we waiting for brain scans to confirm all ...
Hello, I was diagnosed with lung cancer last February, had my lobectomy operation in April and am now under surveillance. I have recently booked a week long holiday and am looking for travel insurance but the prices are so expensive. I was wondering if...
