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I’m new to the group and waiting for surgery to my arm for an unclassified sarcoma. I would be interested to hear from anyone else who has had anything similar. - I’ve been warned that there could be extreme weakness and loss of function afterwards.
husband just been diagose with this - massive tfast growing yumour filling his abdomen. scheduled for surgery but concerned it will grow too much and will be inoperable any men had experience if this cancer?
Hi everyone, I’m 34 and was diagnosed on Friday after lots of investigation and 2 biopsies. I have a soft tissue sarcoma growing behind and around my eye. the pathology report isn’t quite complete so I don’t know the exact type of sarcoma I have but I...
Hi all. I'm brand new to this forum but wanted to join mainly for support and knowledge from those that have been through, or going through exactly what I have. Last year I was diagnosed with Uterine Leiomyosarcoma. I had a total abdominal hysterectomy...
I was diagnosed with a 1b leiomyosarcoma in June 21. I had three monthly CTs until August 22 when my oncologist said that it would be X-rays only from then on. I wasn’t happy with that so we negotiated alternate X-rays and CTS. I had an X-ray in November...
Background - *diagnosed in oct 22 with ulms stage 4 with mets in lungs and lesions in my liver. *Oct - feb 23 - x6 rounds of doxorubicin - lungs mets reduced dramatically, womb stable and liver stable. * March 23 - full hysterectomy and histology showed...
Hi all - Just diagnosed with primary angiosarcoma of the breast, but unexpected. Would be interested to hear of anyone else’s experiences! Apparently it’s well differentiated and they think surgery should sort it, but I’m not sure whether that means I...
Hi. I’m lying in bed and came across this webpage. I thought I would come and say hello. Currently going through a nightmare, like everyone else here. My little brother has stage 4 soft tissue sarcoma. In his arm muscle and has spread to his lungs. He...
Hi there! I am 33 years old and have been diagnosed with what the doctors believe is a Spindle cell Sarcoma (Sarcomas are not the easiest to diagnose). I started Chemotherapy at the end of November and I am currently half way in my treatment plan...
Evening everyone my husband is 66 and in June last year he said he had a bit of an ache in top half of his leg - said he felt like he’d been sitting on a coach seat for too long. He didn’t think too much of it putting it down to getting older. Then...
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