Hello lovely ladies I’m sat in the chair having my second chemo, and 2 hours ago I had a severe reaction I felt my face burning then I literally couldn’t breath, chest pains and the worse thing of all was the back pain, within seconds I was surrounded...
Hi I'm supporting my wife's at her appt next week as she's been asked to come in and get her biopsy results. She had an endometrial biopsy approx 10 days ago as the dr said she saw some things that she didn't like the look of and I'm guessing it's results...
So after many months of suffering and the doctors ignoring my symptoms, i was finally diagnosed with Endometrial Cancer on the 24th March at the grand old age of 31yrs old and just 9 weeks after my husband was diagnosed with testicular cancer! On the...
I met with my surgeon yesterday and the Macmillan nurses. Mr T had bad news and good news…. The bad news wasn’t new as given they found an enlarged lymph node and it was rapid tested I knew that cancer cells had been found and so I knew on discharge...
I'm scheduled for D&C with hysteroscopy on March 31. I've been researching a little - and several reputable sources have reported that the hysteroscopy carries the risk of spreading cancerous/pre-cancerous cells into the peritoneum... with the potential...
Hello all hope everyone is well, I had my first chemotherapy 2 weeks ago it’s was tough, chemotherapy itself went well, a few tears to begin with as it hit me I’m back here again after all these years, no reaction to the chemo everything went smoothly...
Hi everyone sorry for long post, I’m just looking for some help coping with waiting for the final grade of my cancer. I’ve made a great recovery from surgery but now I can’t stop crying and feeling scared. I was told on 24 Jan 2023 I had grade 3, aggressive...
Hi All So nausea previous week was bug but thank you for advice xx Been to phsio all good some stretching exercises etc Saw oncologist on Monday and have only been offered 3 sessions of brachytherapy given that I am grade 3 stage 1a i had assumed...
Hi all, I have had my telephone oncology review today. I was told that nodules and lymph nodes are unchanged but that there was a pelvic bone irregularity. The CT showed that there had been a fracture, which was healing due to treatment (chemo and radio...
Hi all, Monday of last week I had a laparoscopic hysterectomy. So far, so good. Yesterday I got a call from the Macmillan nurse at the hospital advising me that the results of testing my bits and pieces were in. Apparently the cancer wasn't as superficial...
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