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I am having chemotherapy for the 2nd time and I believe this is what is causing such bad headaches all the time. I just wondered if any one else suffers from severe headaches during chemotherapy I have had one for 4 weeks day and night have tried so...
Hi there I was diagnosed with the above in January after having which I now know was kind of fits as I had this in my head I went for surgery straight away and it all got taken out and the mri scan after looked good I am now 2 weeks into 6 weeks of...
Hi I’m receiving chemotherapy for Retroperitoneal sarcoma and wondered if there was anyone else who has experienced this. It’s stable at the moment but more chemotherapy is to follow, when this starts depends on scan results.
Hello, my dad is 78 and has had a lump on his upper arm for a number of years. No pain. He mentioned it to GP some time ago and was told (without being examined) fatty lumps are common in older people. Fast forward another year or so, he went back to...
Hello everyone, I had a stage 1 but grade 3 uterine sarcoma removed along with a radical hysterectomy in January. I’ve had 3 lots of brachial radiotherapy. It’s nearly June & yet today I am so exhausted I cannot get out of bed. When does this get better...
Hi. I was diagnosed a few years ago with sts I had 2 operations to remove large (7kg) tumours to be told, we’ve got them all. Months later I had a scan , to find multiple legions dotted around my stomach. I had chemo and they grew, to be told I was terminal...
Hi all I have an appointment with orthopaedics (sarcoma clinic) on Thursday for a lump near my elbow which I noticed in March. Ultrasound just showed it was an irregular shape, mri showed build up of fluid and fat protruding into the muscle so my gp...
Evening all Had my mri results the other day for a lump by my elbow and the gp said he doesn’t think there is anything suspicious and that there was a build up of fluid and the fat was protruding into the muscle and because of my history he wanted orthopaedics...
Hi It’s the dreaded scan time again. CT scan this Friday, to see if the radiotherapy has been effective on the tumour recurrence! How on earth are we supposed to relax, at times like this? I’m running about like a headless chicken….. and hiding away...
Hi everyone. So update on my recurrence, the operation was a disaster in that the surgeon zipped me up without doing anything other than take a sample. Apparently the cancer made removal too dangerous so I am now back home and waiting for test results...
