After my hubby was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer with mets, hes having immunotherapy & zometa. Had one cyberknife to brain & one radiotherapy to spine. After some awful side affects, bone pains gone & brain met as shrunk to a dot. Just waiting on...
Hi Everyone, I’m new to this forum. Today as an early birthday present I was told the large mass in my pelvis (previously ignored & thought to be a huge fibroid) was cancerous and has potential spread to peritoneum. I’m devastated and after consulting...
Hi there, My Mum (51) was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer in Feb. She had operation in March and is now starting her second round of Chemo. This week, she was admitted to hospitals for shortness of breath. Drs found fluid on one of lungs, drained...
Hi. Just wondering if anyone has been diagnosed with HGS Ovarian Stage 4, but it can’t actually be seen on the ovaries or surrounding area. Test results from biopsy/op/ fluid from around lungs show I hv this disease. But, I am told, I am unusual as the...
Hi All, new to this forum, warm hello to anyone that's reading this. My name is Jo and I'm 33 living in Wiltshire. I was diagnosed with stage IV ovarian cancer about a month ago. Went on holiday to Tunisia, came back with a bloated tummy, naturally GP...
Hi, new to the group. don’t know where to start, mom had ovarian cancer In 2023. Was removed with the ovaries and then all went wrong and she had to have a kidney removed. Fast forward a year 2024 it’s now come back as secondary cancer, clear cell carcinoma...
Hi group, I'm back here after 8years. Well, its back so shocked and finding it hard to think it's me I'm talking about. its back in lungs, spleen and stomach, cannot operate because in several places and in a very rare place at bottom of stomach, so...
Hi I’m new to the forum and looking for support . HGOC 3b I have a concern with surgery as my surgeon didn’t take all the cancer out . Left some on rectum and only took a small amount of omentum out . Since op I’ve researched a lot and this isn’t...
Hello I am around 6 weeks into this journey and absolutely petrified. The Drs are confirming my diagnosis which is suspected as ovarian cancer spread to my omentum, little bit to my liver. Awaiting my biopsy results any day now. My stomach is so swollen...
Hi, diagnosed two weeks ago after being messed around at gp and hospital. In shock at minute and very weepy. Waiting for hysterectomy and possibly have a stoma next month then probably chemo. I’m 72, never been in hospital except for childbirth and very...
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