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Coping with a loved one's cancer

Post prostatectomy

Hi, My partner got diagnosed with prostate cancer last year and had the prostatectomy. It’s been nearly a year and the consequences are taking its toll for me especially, being younger. I’m struggling to find and online chats or forums for gay men and partners avai...Read More

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My husband has bowel cancer

Hi everyone my husband has just been diagnosed with stage 111 bowel cancer in his rectum. He is the most positive person and Is convinced he will beat this. He starts 12 weeks of chemo next week and then has an operation. Fingers crossed everything will go smoot...Read More

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Brother Diagnosed with Terminal Stomach Cancer

Hey all, I am unsure how to word what I am going through but know that this forum would allow me to gather more comprehension on how I feel as what I have read through so far in the forum, we all mourn news and express emotions differently which is humbling to kn...Read More

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processing feelings around diagnosis

I have someone in my life who was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer earlier this year. they said they'd try to give her up to at least another 6 years to live which if you read it might seem like a long time, but she is in major pain from everything I hear. the...Read More

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Guilt for having fun

Hi allmy husband has stage 4 esophagus cancer and is fed via a tube through a stent in the tumour, and to his intestines. He has no energy as he isn’t having enough feeds, despite Meyer efforts to encourage him. We have moved from a rural area to be closer to famil...Read More

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accumulated trauma from looking after mum with cancer

The last several years, my mum had bladder cancer. She's had several blocks of treatment and now has the all clear, and is coming up to the last few months of "preventative" chemo. So she's lucky. Yet I'm still traumatised by the whole thing. I'm 46 and live at hom...Read More

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New to cancer

My Dad has just been diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer, he can only have chemo..my feelings are all over the place and I am trying to be strong..especially for my mum and family..is this ok..

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My father has terminal Cancer

Hi guys, my father was diagnosed with lung cancer 2 weeks ago, and just got more news that it has spread all over his body. It's tough to hear considering he goes to the doctors every 3months and nothing has ever been picked up! I'm angry at his gp for not picking ...Read More

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Just Reaching Out x

Hi everyone, I am new to the community and just wanted to post to sort of introduce myself and reach out.My name is Ellen and my lovely Mum has very recently been diagnosed with stage 4 small cell lung cancer. She is receiving treatment but the cancer is incurable ...Read More

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Mental damage after Mastectomy.

My Wife of over sixty years has developed medically diagnosed diminished mental capacity after mastectomy surgery. I have researched all possible causes, and it appears people, when reaching old age, the possibility of brain damage from deep anaesthesia is probable...Read More

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