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Hi everyone, I'm new to the forum. Just at the beginning of all this and it's sort of a headspin. My mother has very recently been diagnosed with breast cancer after finding a lump. She's had the biopsy to confirm; a 3cm lump, spread to the lymph nodes. We're still...Read More
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My husband has developed some nerve issues since he had his surgery for stage 3 colon cancer. He hasn't even started chemo yet. Since the oxaliplatin causes neuropathy the oncologist doesn't want to do that right now, she wants to start with only the 5-fu until th...Read More
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Hi I'm new today and have come across your community! Reading some of the posts I can I'm not alone with some of the things I've been experiencing as my husband's begins his battle with Breast Cancer. We have been married for 8 months (2nd marriages for both of us)...Read More
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Edit - Removed post because there were too many specifics.Long story short, my narcissistic, toxic father in law has cancer. He treats everyone cruelly. My husband left home for 3 years (before meeting me), because of his treatment. He is just a horrible horrible m...Read More
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I belong to a Facebook page called "Caring for Husband's with Cancer". It's really big now, international and has over 1000 members. The reason for this post is that more and more women are posting about how abusive their husbands are (ususally emotionally and ve...Read More
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Hi everyone my father was diagnosed with gastric cancer in december last year. He was given 12 months to live treatment is chemo as cancer has spread to far for any other treatments. I am one of three of his children and i am closest to him. The past few weeks he h...Read More
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Hi, I’m 29 years old and recently had the amazing news that my dads treatment is working. It was 4 years of hell with doom constantly looming over my head and anxiety of the unknown. The 4 years took its toll on me in so many ways and was depressed and suicidal (am...Read More
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This past Monday my husband went in for a colonoscopy. At the consultation after the Dr told us that he had a very large polyp that he was not able to remove and that he would contact a surgeon to see the best way to remove it and in the mean time he took biopsies....Read More
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Hi, my dad is terminal with stage 4 Esophageal cancer with metastases to the liver/lymph nodes. He also has pulmonary embolisms in the lung and his tumours have previously been bleeding. We have had 3 ER admissions in the last month and he is becoming very weak. De...Read More
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Has anybody recently been diagnosed themselves or their loved one has been with throat cancer? there appears to be so much frightening information about the radiation treatment and associated side effects online, Im so glad he is not reading it, but I cannot help m...Read More
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