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Hi, What a 'club' to be members of hey?My stepson, diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, in July 18, has had 33 rounds of chemo. Today the scans show new growth and one in particular has grown significantly in the last month. He has just started Lonsurf today. What...Read More
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On 2 January this year my husband almost died due to his blood pressure dropping extremely low due to infections. Emergency department drs told us they battled to save his life. They told us he had responded well to injections they had given him during the early ...Read More
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Hi,My beautiful Dad (aged 71) was diagnosed in June 2019 with Grade 4 Glioblastoma. It's terminal and has affected his mobility, speech, cognitive function (he has 3 tumours). My Mum has been his carer at home but he is starting to become quite verbally abusive. ...Read More
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Hi all, I'm new to this whole cancer council support system, but i thought i'd give this a go. Long story short my boyfriend (and fiance)'s father was diaognosed with a tumor in his lung in 2017(un-operable) just after we signed our lease to move out together. Hi...Read More
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Hi all, I am new here.About a year ago, my father passed away. He had colon cancer. just last week, my mother was also diagnosed with this cancer. I am in shock. I am going through the hardest time of my life and I don’t know what to do!my mom is basically my life....Read More
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Hi! My girlfriend and I started on February last year and on March she was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer, she went through hormone theraphy for around 3 months and then she was scheduled for a double mastectomy, she went through that and a month after her do...Read More
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I take care of my husband who has cancer diagnosed in April , we were doing fine I thought , but he hasn’t shown me ant affection / love and always sleeps way over on other side of bed , I asked him why and he says cause his body hurts etc... I accepted this , now...Read More
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My lovely dad (60 y.o male, 5'10" tall, 78 kg weight, doesn't smoke and doesn't drink, previously had Hepatitis B) who's always been my role model and hero in life got diagnosed with sarcamatoid carcinoma starting from liver and spread all over his body (Stage 4 li...Read More
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Has anyone had experience with or know if it is usual for cancer patient undergoing chemo to shake and make small moaning sounds, mainly whilst asleep. My husband started these things about month age. He has no knowledge of the moaning sounds, some nights I hwear...Read More
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So I was with my boyfriend for about a year before he was diagnosed with stage 2 HL. He happens to gall in the 15% who doesn't respond to the standard treatment and has had many infections/ complications along the way. As a last resort he will be getting a stem cel...Read More
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