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Hi all! I have stage 4 endometrial cancer, I have no womb so quite rare. ive had 5 rounds of chemo/immunotherapy combined sessions. Last one was cancelled due to low white blood cell count. I am now experiencing pain where my tumour is, is this normal...
Hi I’ve had intermittent bleeding since April after starting HRT in February. I’d never had odd bleeding before even post menopause. I was sent for an ultrasound last week and lining measured at 14.8mm so that flagged an urgent referral and hysteroscopy...
Hi I had abdominal hysterectomy 2 weeks ago. Scar is healing well. Bowels are ok, bladder and no sickness. Eating well. No temperature. However a couple of days ago I developed a pain outside of vagina right hand side and it hurts when walking or standing...
Hi. I've just joined. I'm 54 years old and have just been diagnosed with grade 3 endometrial cancer following heavy bleeding and a hysteroscopy which found loads of polyps and a biopsy was taken. It took over 4 weeks to come back. The story so far is...
Does anyone suffer with white coat syndrome? I immediately become anxious in a hospital setting. My heart rate goes up as well as blood pressure. Just can't seem to control it as I hate anything medical.
I was diagnosed with womb cancer in October 24 and had a full hysterectomy on the 5th November, I have recovered well from the operation (robotically assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy) and probably had more discomfort from constipation than the operation...
I have Endometrial cancer with a P53 tumour, I had 3 Chemo sessions but had an allergic reaction to one of the two drugs, the tumour slightly grew over this period, they then put me on 3 Immunotherapy sessions with 20mg lenvitinab which has given me so...
Hello, I’m new here, and to be honest can’t really believe I’m here I went to my GP back in May after having some abnormal bleeding and consistent pain when making love. I’m 53, never carried a pregnancy to full term, though I am mum to 3 amazing young...
I've started to develop peripheral neuropathy and I've read that a reduction in paclitaxol can help. Does a reduction affect the efficacy of the treatment? My treatment is paclitaxol + carboplatin.
Hi After my private second opinion and TVS with the consultant, my NHS consultant thave agreed to keep my ovaries and have made me aware of the risks of doing so and that they may need to be removed due to histology or appearance during surgery. (Surgery...
