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Hello, I was just diagnosed yesterday with Complex Hyperplasia with Atypia. I am 50, and in peri. It started with excessive bleeding for 2.5 months. I had an ultrasound that showed my endometrial lining was 21mm followed by biopsy. I was put on BC for oa month ...Read More
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Hi folks I'm a 47 year old guy in the ACT, recently diagnosed with Bowel Cancer. As someone who was always observing this happening to others, I've been getting regular check ups for early detection since I was 40. Nothing ever came up. As it turned out, none of th...Read More
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Hi there, i am wondering if anyone is feeling ashamed or embarrassed by being diagnosed with cancer. I sure did. Doctors told me that I could continue to work through the chemo treatments and that gave me hope but I didn’t want to be treated differently at work or...Read More
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This starts with a squamous cell carcinoma cut from my back. Some time later the same cancer grows in my left toncil. I am waiting for 2 more surgeries one to get nodes in my neck the other to get what was not taken by the first surgery. My question is about the in...Read More
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After 8 wonderful years of remission from Stage 4 Follicular Lymphoma, within 3 weeks I had gone from being care-free, cycling to work, cycling around, feeling good, to hearing the news that first that a CT scan - whilst I was waiting for biopsy results - showed th...Read More
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Hi All,Please welcome me to the club. I was diagnosed with bowel cancer 6 weeks ago- and told I might have had it for at least 7/8 years. I was confident I can get through it however bad it is. Getting through might mean getting out of it completely, or living life...Read More
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Hi All, I went through a surgery 10 days ago and got my sigmoid colon removed (high anterior resection). I thought I was recovering well. I had some blood in the stool for the first couple of days and none after that. Since yesterday I am spotting some traces of fr...Read More
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I have been told that once my chemo starts I will lose my hair. Everyone tells me about the wigs I can wear. I must admit before having cancer, I thought every female with cancer wore a wig. But the more I have thought about it, I dont want a wig. Anyone else f...Read More
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I just found out pop got this.I was never informed this was code for genIV, a genetic test, maybe.I have seen great results with this for breast cancer (78% confidence lvl)but my sample set 10000>n>5000of 5k records indicates there is no statistical significancein...Read More
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few months ago diagnosed with 3 types of arthritis since then diagnosed with invasive carcinoma ( breast ) had the lumpectomy, saw the doc , it will be 6 weeks as of 1st May when i see the surgeon again , and a week after that I see the oncologist. I was told by ...Read More
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