Giant cell tumour

FormerMember
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Hello I’m writing this to ask if there’s anyone who has had giant cell tumour. Although most of these are benign, I have had an ultra sound, MRI and a biopsy next week under general anaesthetic. I am being looked after by sarcoma MDT, the location of this tumour is on my right hand near index finger. Has anyone had a similar experience I’m so worried and due to location of tumour and being right handed doesn’t help. 

  • Hi , welcome to the online community, I’m sorry to hear of your diagnosis and that someone with the same experience hasn’t come forward to reply yet. I have a different cancer but I noticed you hadn’t had a reply and this was your first post and so wanted to pop in and say hello. You’ve identified that your cancer is rare, so I did a bit of a search in this group on giant cell and came up with very few previous posts. There was this one https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer_types/soft-tissue-sarcomas/f/soft-tissue-sarcomas-forum/133950/rare-sarcomai

    I put the link in for you to read and I’m hoping if I tag that if they still use the community that they might hear that I’m talking about them and my fellow champ , and pop in to give you a reply. 

    Best wishes 

    Take care KT

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember in reply to KTatHome

    Hi there thank you so much for replying to my post and taking time to write back.

    i will check this link.

    best wishes

  • Hi , my wife's cancer is Leiomyosarcoma so rather different to yours or though of course still rare and it took a while for me to find anyone with even a fairly similar diagnosis. Added to that the lack of great knowledge around this - we have lost count of the number of times a doctor has looked it up on wikipedia.

    Sometimes another useful source of support can be the sarcoma uk website though it does sound you are on a sensible track at the moment.

    <<hugs>>

    Steve

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  • FormerMember
    FormerMember in reply to src60

    Hi Steve 

    Thanks for your reply. I’m sorry to hear of your wife’s cancer. It’s so hard at the moment but talking about it doesn’t help. 

    Best wishes 

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember in reply to FormerMember

    I just saw what I wrote talking does help. 

    Best wishes