Been offered the choice of including paclitaxel in my chemo or just going for carboplatin - struggling to understand the benefit of the paclitaxel as appears will only reduce risk by 2% compared to carboplatin alone but is much more likely to cause neuropathy...
My mum is 65, this year she has been diagnosed with Ataxia but otherwise well. A complete health obsessive and the person in the family that is the reason we no longer cook with oil and all smell of essential oils :-) Two weeks ago we were enjoying a...
Hi everyone, I hope this is allowed on here as I am yet to receive a diagnosis but I was told the other day that I have a cyst on my ovarie and need a blood test. Then thanks to Google I learnt (mid shift) that a blood test meant there's a possibility...
My mam got diagnosed with ovarian cancer last week, with extensive peritoneal and omental infiltration by multiple large masses. But also something on the bottom of her liver. We have had to phone an ambulance for her twice due to the swelling in her...
Diagnosed April should have had debulking on May 1st. At pre op three days before a dvt in leg and blood clot in each lung found and op cancelled. On blood thinners and have to wait 6 weeks June 19 for op now. So worried it may have spread in 6 weeks...
My mum had MI 3 days ago after 5 doses of Paclitaxil and needed stenting. Understandably she is off Paclitaxil. She is recovering okay at the moment. Scan is due next Sunday to see if paclitaxil made any difference. I am thinking what next if she can...
Hi everyone my wife has just started on niraparib after having a complete response to stage 4 ovarian cancer, unfortunately she is suffering with low haemoglobin levels which are constantly below 80. She is now off them for a week and having transfusions...
Any advice please on taking oliparab. I've tried with and without food, before and after food, but within 30 minutes of taking them I'm sick. I have anti sickness tablets but they don't help at all. any thoughts?
I will try and keep this brief, bloods started rising from beginning of Jan, took every scan to find the devil end of march. ok so it's in liver, spleen and near gallbladder and looks like it's in pylorus. I have been told they are not going to operate...
Hi all I was diagnosed with Stage 4 ovarian cancer in September 2022. Two operations and two cycles of chemo later (the first was only 4 out of the proposed 6 due to a infection that led to hospitalisation) I began on the maintenance treatment Niraparib...
