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Newly Diagnosed w/ Stage II Squamous Cell Anal CA 7/21

I'm told that I'm to have a port placed in which to receive 5 weeks of chemo. The regime will be daily 5FU & 2 doses of Mitomycin, one @ the beginning & one @ the end. I will also be having targeted radiation for 5-6 weeks M-F during this same time. I have a lot ...Read More

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Eating Well

Eating well after a cancer diagnosis can help you cope with treatment. Good nutrition can give you more energy, help keep your muscles strong, speed up recovery and help manage the side effects of treatment. However, sometimes cancer treatment can make it more chal...Read More

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Escaping reality

Hello fellow cancer sufferers. A little bit of background about myself; I have advanced, inoperable pancreatic cancer and am currently going through the chemo routine. I'm 59, and I guess there's no other way to say it, really, it sucks. The cancer, the chemo, and,...Read More

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Finding friends

Hey:) in 2018 I was diagnosed with breast cancer and went through treatment. A couple weeks ago I found out it’s back and in my bones. They’ve given me 5 years with treatment. I’m honestly not on here to talk about the shit we have to go through but to find like mi...Read More

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Finding Hope in the years following cancer

I just wanted to write briefly about my experience with cancer recovery, in case it resonates somehow with you, and that you may be able to take some strength from it. You see .. for four years now, I've been waiting to die. I didn't want to acknowledge it, but I h...Read More

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out of control

so down... lost my whole past self. hair etc why am i a mess?

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Anyone Else hate the feeling of loss of control?

Hi, I have my first appointment tomorrow with the oncology team who are setting up my combined chemo and radiotherapy treatment (I have head and neck cancer)... I was looking online at wig options etc last night and looking at videos about it and for the first ti...Read More

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Radiowave Therapy Clinic

Has anybody heard of this clinic or had any experience with it? It's a private cancer centre in Clarmont, Western Australia. I don't think I can post the website here, so google it to find it. Caitlin

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Worried about a narrow tumour margin in RCC surgery

I went through a partial nephrectomy a month ago, removed a smallish (13mm) RCC tumour from my kidney. The pathology report indicated that I had a very narrow clear margin of 0.8mm. I don't know whether it was intentionally narrow or an error/misunderstanding durin...Read More

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Since getting cancer ... I smile more

It's really weird, in many ways the opposite reaction of what you'd expect .. I thought it might be useful to write about it, as many people here are coping with grief, anger, fear, and my personal reaction has been somewhat different. (Yes, absolutely, coloured by...Read More

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