Hi my name is Ingrid, it’s been awhile since I have been on the group chats. I’ve had two more years of chemo therapy. I’m now on the above capsules ZEJULA or Niraparib. To try and halt the speed in which my cancer returns, I finished my last chemo...
Hi, I was diagnosed with Primary Peritoneal last November. A biopsy confirmed it was a gynae department cancer. I have had 6 rounds of Carboplatin, 4 of them with Paclitaxel. Last 2 cycles were withou the pacli because I was getting bit of peripheral...
Hi all over the past 4 years I have tried to be positive despite chemo, operations etc. Now on a parp inhibitor. Some people are on same path and others a slightly different route. It seems with breast cancer that there are so many others that you can...
I am due major surgery on 17th may (this month). I was wondering if anyone can tell me how long the recovery period is and how i can speed up my recovery? I have taken a year of work to recover and have no idea what to expect. This will be my 2nd op but...
Hi. I haven’t posted anything for some time now. After 6 cycles of chemo last year as i had responded well to treatment I had debulking surgery in July. As well as total hysterectomy, I was told that as much as was visible was removed including in pelvic...
Hi All I'm new here, and it is my 75 year old mum who has peritoneal cancer. She's had chemo and ultra radical surgery over a year ago, and was on olaparib as hers is BRCA2 related. In the last 3 weeks, she's been hospitalised twice as she's had bowel...
Hi. Has anyone any experience of this type of treatment please? I have had Primary Peritoneal Cancer for well over a year now, finally diagnosed at Satge IIIC in March last year following a biopsy. Since last May I have had six cycles of the usual Carbo...
Hello! I am writing for any perspective on what my mom is currently going through. In mid-August I took her to ER with a distended belly, after a CT, was told she had metatstatic cancer but as they were not sure of the primary source, ordered a bunch...
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