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Living with and beyond cancer

Do you ever learn to trust your body again?

Hi, I've finished treatment and feel like I've been spat out the other end and I don't exactly know what to do or how to start picking up the pieces. I work and a come home and that's the extent of my life, that I fought so hard for, because i'm too tired to do ...Read More

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Merkel Cell Carcinoma

Hi everyone I would like to share my journey with you to give strength to others. In February 2002 I was diagnosed with Merkel Cell Carcinoma a very rare & aggressive cancer, it had metastasised from the primary in the middle of my chest to a lymph node under my le...Read More

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Rectal pain due to scarring - post radical prostatectomy

Hi to everyone! Can anyone provide me with advice on how to treat severe rectal discomfort due to scarring - post radical prostatetomy? Any info will be received with gratitude. Thanks 🙂

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Brain and Body Balance

Hi Anyone and everyone, I am almost 2 years cancer free, nine months from treatment and trying now to get my strength back. Sore knees, sore shoulders and of course scar tissue on left side. I am trying swimming lanes and love being in the water. Not sure how ha...Read More

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Amyloidosis- is it survivable?

I would love to talk with anyone who has survived amyloidosis,i've been given info by specialists and i always feel there is something they are not telling us.My other half has this condition.We only found out about a month and a half ago.He is on week 4 of chemo.T...Read More

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Motivation for losing weight and maintaining a healthy lifestyle

Hi everyone, Im a 10mth survivor of cancer....I have been losing weight really well until depression and placed on antidepressants, I have put on 6kgs. Im ready to dump these bloody tablets... How do you keep motivated with exercise and eating small portions and st...Read More

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whats with the hair?

Has anyone else had strange regrowth with their hair. Chemo was 9 weeks ago and my hair is growing quite well around the back but very patchy around the front and not even a hint of a fringe. It grew back white initially - not my original colour - now there is d...Read More

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Just joined

Hello everyone. I am a breast cancer and bowel cancer survivor. I had a mastectomy on 29th June 2011. Had four sessions of chemotherapy and then found I had a nasty tumour in my bowel that took three attempts to get it out. Now I am effectively cancer free - not cu...Read More

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Introducing Scott Jones

Hi all I am a 47 year old cancer survivor. I was diagnosed with a grade 2 malignant Brain Tumour in 2006. Its an oligo astrocytoma located in both the left and right thalmus of my brain . They are seperate so I call them heckle and jekyl. I had a brain biopsy in ...Read More

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Hello

Hi there I am new to this. I have survived my treatment for cervical cancer, finished on 31st January. I am recovering and thinking of returning to work. I also spend time wondering "why?"... Maggie

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