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My mom is 67 years old (in india) and was recently diagnosed thru PET scan testing that she has stage 2-3 Renal cell carcinoma with a mass of 7 cm on left Kidney (localized with surrounding muscle .. but they found some spots in lungs). She had heart failure earlie...Read More
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Hi,It's a worry when the doc asks the patient, 'Do you have any ideas?' My father had a Whipple procedure for pancreatic cancer over two weeks ago. He is still unable to digest food and therefore remains in the RBWH. They've said the digestive system just needs to ...Read More
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Hi everyone, my dad has just recently been diagnosed with Bowel Cancer not sure what stage but it has spread to the Liver so I’m guessing stage 4? Little background information, my dad, who is in his 60’s, has never been sick in his life ( apart from the usual like...Read More
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Hello all, hope u are all doing ok. I have a question re side effects of chemo. My dad is on his fourth and hopefully last chemo treatment next week. He also has immunotherapy with the chemo. He was doing really well up to a week ago , only suffering from a li...Read More
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Hi, Im 23 years old, My grandmother passed from bowel cancer 5 years ago. And its been in the family. (Disclamer - blood) It started of as mucus in my stools. But....Ive been having rectal bleeding for around 1 1/2 weeks now. Its alot of blood. My poop is very st...Read More
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hi Lilly it's mummy!I am sorry i may be loosing my fight but i can't believe your my beautiful daughter.. so beautiful i love you
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i am so upset ill be leaving my boyfriend behind it is so upsetting i cant bring my self focused to believe i will be dead very soon i am so scared
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i'll see you soon and i am coming to an end to my battle see you soon
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Hi all,so first of all this is very early days and in fact we are so early that we are still hopeful that the biopsy comes up with nothing sinister. The breast surgeon we consulted with after the mammogram was very confident that it’s not cancerous. Where we are at...Read More
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Just wondering if anyone has any experience on risk vs benefits in regards to palliative chemo and having no spleen?
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