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I’m still in a limbo just now as I’m 99% sure of diagnosis……from GP but have endoscopy to confirm on Friday this week . I guess I know really ( ex breast cancer sufferer ) but it’s a bit daunting and I’m already in pain with nausea and “inner chills...
Mr partner had been having stomach pain for a good year, but despite multiple tests it took him not being able to eat anything and getting another endoscopy a year later on for the cancer to be found. Metaticized now. Chemo only option. Also getting immunotherapy...
Hi to everyone of you including carer's helping with cancer sufferers. Ive been diagnosed luckily i believe very early with localised stomach cancer inside the stomach ONLY. i start chemotherapy next week and it would be good to hear from those who are...
Hi, I’m new here and I’m trying to work out what is going on with my family member - I don’t cope well without you facts and obviously I need to protect my family by not charging at this like a bull in a china shop, which is my M.O. I was told a little...
Hi Has anyone experience of this ...diagnosed 2 months ago ..lobular in stomach from breast 5 years ago.
My 82 year old mum has just been diagnosed with stomach cancer and no treatment has been offered. I am absolutely devastated that nothing has been offered. She has copd and a leaking heart valve but is generally in good health, still shopping, cleaning...
As 2022 comes to an end, it is a time to look back and look forward! For those affected by cancer, it’s especially hard as the future is so uncertain! Inevitably you remember the shock of being told you or someone you love has cancer. It changes life...
Hi, my dad (69) was diagnosed with stomach cancer around 3 weeks ago. After scans, laparoscopy and stomach wash we have been told today it’s spread to the lymph nodes and peritoneum. He’s been offered palliative chemo. They cannot operate. I’m so...
Hi my mum has just been diagnosed with cancer , it started in her ovaries and has spread to stomach , she is going for a meeting to discuss chemotherapy treatment tomorrow , are there any questions she should be asking ? Any advice would be appreciat...
Hi all, My mother was diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer (Linitis Plastica) in July, however, she had been suffering symptoms since March. She started on FOLFOX intraveneously in August and was dropped from 100% to 80% after the first dose, due to...
