topic Cancer really blows! in Coping with a loved one's cancer https://onlinecommunity.cancercouncil.com.au/t5/Coping-with-a-loved-one-s-cancer/Cancer-really-blows/m-p/36437#M4559 <P>My father had some sort of cancer in his face and neck probably 16/17 years ago. He still suffers from the radiation side affects.</P><P>My mother had breast cancer 15 years ago, had a mastectomy and chemo. Sailed through it all really well.</P><P>2016 I was diagnosed with Nodular Melanoma.&nbsp; Surgery. Then appeared in a lymph node. More surgery. Then Melanoma&nbsp; blind immune therapy trial. Then massive side affects from that. Nearly died.</P><P>Now my mother has just been diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer recurrent. 15 years after original breast cancer. She has now been told it's not curable but is treatable.&nbsp; So starts aggressive chemo next week. She's 80 in May. I sure as heck am not ready to lose her! She's determined to fight it with everything she has.</P><P>Plus my sister in laws mother is days away from succumbing to gynaecological cancer.</P><P>How do we get off this roller coaster ride?!</P> Fri, 15 Jan 2021 23:30:38 GMT Wendywitchiepoo 2021-01-15T23:30:38Z Cancer really blows! https://onlinecommunity.cancercouncil.com.au/t5/Coping-with-a-loved-one-s-cancer/Cancer-really-blows/m-p/36437#M4559 <P>My father had some sort of cancer in his face and neck probably 16/17 years ago. He still suffers from the radiation side affects.</P><P>My mother had breast cancer 15 years ago, had a mastectomy and chemo. Sailed through it all really well.</P><P>2016 I was diagnosed with Nodular Melanoma.&nbsp; Surgery. Then appeared in a lymph node. More surgery. Then Melanoma&nbsp; blind immune therapy trial. Then massive side affects from that. Nearly died.</P><P>Now my mother has just been diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer recurrent. 15 years after original breast cancer. She has now been told it's not curable but is treatable.&nbsp; So starts aggressive chemo next week. She's 80 in May. I sure as heck am not ready to lose her! She's determined to fight it with everything she has.</P><P>Plus my sister in laws mother is days away from succumbing to gynaecological cancer.</P><P>How do we get off this roller coaster ride?!</P> Fri, 15 Jan 2021 23:30:38 GMT https://onlinecommunity.cancercouncil.com.au/t5/Coping-with-a-loved-one-s-cancer/Cancer-really-blows/m-p/36437#M4559 Wendywitchiepoo 2021-01-15T23:30:38Z