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Hi I have just been diagnosed with none small cell lung cancer after being miss diagnosed with a blood clot on the lung. I’m having surgery to remove the tumour the bottom half of my right lung will be removed. Could anyone let me know what the recovery...
My 45 year old son was diagnosed this week. He attended A+E 2 weeks ago with chest pain, an xray showed a blood clot in the lung so ct scan was booked next day. We werr devasted to be told he had secondary cancer in his liver with no signs of the primary...
Hi are there any small cell lung cancer patients in the group, feeling so alone here on the Wirral, I go to Clatterbridge cancer centre wirral I'm on 2nd line Topotecan anyone else on this treatment.
Just had my follow up appointment with my surgeon and the news was all good. Lymph nodes were all clear, margins were good, and the cancer itself was low grade. My rad-onc had already told me that no further treatment was required, but hearing it from...
I’m very happy to say I was discharged from hospital on Sunday evening following a straightforward operation RATS but developed a chest infection and atrial fibrillation. I’m coughing well and have my medication sorted. I was very tired yesterday because...
Thinking of booking a week away as something to look to and wondering what other peoples experiences are of travelling abroad ie do the consultants frown on it or encourage you, obtaining insurance, any dos or donts TIA.
Hi I’m reasonably new here. Im a 67 year old woman and I have a nodule in my left lung it’s very small but it is live, I have met the surgeon from Leicester and he said he could operate in 3 to 4 weeks and has explained the worse case scenario’s, I also...
Hi All My husband has been receiving Immunotherapy for NSCLC for almost a year to the day. The scan before the last one was so positive and his tumours had shrunk my half. We had the results of the last scan last week and they have started growing...
I have lung cancer, and have had four sessions on carboplatin, pemetrexed and pembrolizumab, then a further session dropping the carboplatin, as the tumor has shrunk significantly. I was due for another session next tuesday, but I reported having increasing...
Hi everyone, this is a first for me. I was diagnosed 1 year ago and qualified for targeted there, Osimertinib. Lost a lot of weight, don't relish eating, but I have to, which is ironic considering I was a chef for most of my life and ran my own restaurant...
