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Hi friends, I had a complete thyroidectomy in May 21 and did not have RAI as was given a less than 5% chance of recurrence/ persistence. Had my check up ultrasound in January which showed 4 suspicious lymph nodes, had FNA in Feb with confirmed PTC persistence. I ha...Read More
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I was diagnosed with lung cancer over a year ago. It feels so surreal , people say, you look ok but they don’t know the physical, mental things you go through. I have had radiotherapy, a lobectomy which I was in an induced coma for 3 days. And was psychotic when I ...Read More
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Hi, I was diagnosed with early stage lung cancer in May this year which was aggressive and on the advice of my surgeon I had half my left lung removed. After the operation I was told that they had not got all the cancer and that there was some cancer left where the...Read More
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Just found this site. I'm a 46yr old mum who was diagnosed with non smokers lung cancer, Stage 4, in May this year.I make the point of being a non smoker as most people ( that was including me) don't realise that anyone can get this disease and the number of n...Read More
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Hello I was diagnosed with Follicular Lymphoma on 19 December 2013. Is there anyone else who was put on the 'watch and wait' approach?
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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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Hello, Im Ellah. I was diagnosed with Stage 3 Endometrial Cancer in March, had my surgery on the 23rd of March where they took out my cervix, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and lymph nodes. All have cancer. I just finished my 2nd round of chemo carboplatin and pa...Read More
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Been a while since I wandered in here. I get bloods sampled ever year and Doc says my PSA levels are below normal for my age of 69 years young. At least my Doctor has changed a few things in his clinic after my dose of Cancer was finally picked up as no one was t...Read More
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Hi I was just wondering about finacial assistance as I am about to start recieving my employment income protection I am not entitled to health care card and am doing interferon (melanoma )treatment the medication is $1583 every 3 weeks plus pain medication etc .......Read More
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Has anyone else lost close friends or family members who you thought would be there during treatment? I saw this and realized cancer ghosting was a lot more common than I thought Cancer Ghosting: The Traumatic Side Effect No One Warns You About Read More
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