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My husband is 56 years old and already has progressive rheumatoid arthritis. This diagnosis was about 9 years ago. He has been treated with immunosuppressive drugs for most of this time and Methotrexate. These drugs all fail after a while and then he...
Hi, my husband is struggling with cancer fatigue, particularly the not sleeping at night then sleeping into the morning. He has been on Zopiclone and now on Melatonin Teva, neither have been any use. No matter what we try, nothing is breaking the cycle...
I was diagnosed last week from ct scan with bone cancer but they don't know what's caused it so far. My morphine has gone up and up. I'm now on 5 mg oromorph every 2 hours and cst twice a day. The pain never leaves me . They've just increased my cst to...
Just found out about my bone cancer. They need to.do a biopsy to.find primary cause. In shock and lots of pain..just don't know how to get comfortable at the moment. Any info would be helpful.
My husband was diagnosed in November 2021 with CUP after having been ill since the June. He was offered a trial but unfortunately nothing in his DNA could be identified to profile so he went on and did 3 months of Gem and Cisplatin chemo of which the...
Hello, I am currently writing this post for my lifelong friend Danielle (28). On March 24th She went to her local GP with server stomach pain and non stop coughing, at first they tried to turn her away saying it was acid. Danielle knew her body wasn...
So finished my third year of chemotherapy treatment about six weeks ago. Results not as successful as before, but I'm still 2.5 years post diagnosis. My recent scan shows no growth in the liver lesion and all lymph nodes normal. So the cancer is "stable...
Diagnosis in 2020 SCC. In lymph nodes two, sixth month chemotherapy treatment sessions using carboplatin and plaxatol 2021 & 2022, which had given me two extra years against doing nothing. Back in January, the cancer returned and I was then told another...
Hi Everyone, I was diagnosed with CUP 6th Jan. The secondary cancer is within 4 lymphs. Everything about CUP seems negative, I.e. incurable, treatment is redundant, 9-12 months to live etc should I resign myself to die or should I be fighting this...
Hi My husband has just been diagnosed with CUP .... probably squamous.... I am totally lost today (he has gone to work!)
