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My partner has just been diagnosed with a rare lung carcinoid and starts oral chemotherapy next week. Anyone any experience on oral chemotherapy and what should we expect? Thanks
Hi all Just wanted to update as I realised I hadn’t written in a while - my dad, just turned 50, was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer with brain metastasis in January 2022, the diagnosis was terminal. We’re fortunate to be entering into our 7th...
Dad was a fit 74 year young man who fitted my kitchen, hung all my doors at the end of November 2021. 6 weeks later our lives changed forever and the Dad we knew had disappeared. Discovered he had lung cancer with massive brain mets. Driving home that...
I finished treatment in March for breast cancer (surgery, chemo and radiotherapy) I had no lymph node involvement and margins were clear. I had Covid in April and I'm asthmatic. Three weeks after Covid I started struggling with breathlessness, my asthma...
Hi everyone, my dad has had 2 cycles of chemo and the 3rd one postponed until after a ct scan this Monday to check if the chemo is working or not. Doc says if it’s not working she’ll stop chemo. He was told he couldn’t get surgery or radiotherapy as a...
Hi everyone, I wonder if anyone can help. My mum had a lobectomy 10 days ago and she’s really struggling to sleep with where her stitches are healing. has anyone got any fool proof ways of making it comfortable enough so she can sleep? She’s exhausted...
Can anyone on here recommend a travel insurance.l have got small lung cancer that had spread to over parts of my organs .
I feel despondant as no one ever replys to my questions .i think i will leave here .this forum is not helping me
Hi, I had pneumonia which did not get better with antibiotics, got sent for a CT scan and was told I have a mass on my lungs, got sent for a bronchoscopy the next day so they could do a biopsy, the were unable to do the biopsy as there were to many blood...
Hello , my partner has currently been diagnosed with advance lung cancer . He is going to be starting chemotherapy on Monday, he has been in a lot of pain the past few days , is this normal he’s feeling pain in his leg muscles, and back of his neck...
