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In order to help make your time with the Cancer Council Online Community the very best experience we can, we'll be creating a number of tutorials in this thread over the coming weeks.
We already have a fairly comprehensive FAQ section (frequently asked questions)...Read More
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Hello, I'm Nicole and I'm new to this way of communicating. I was diagnosed with supraglottis swamis cell carcinoma in May and have gone through 7 weeks of chemo and radiation treatment. Also had dysphagia and octynophasia. .Chemotherapy once a week, radiation 5 da...Read More
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Hello everyone, I was new here last week. I was diagnosed with a kind of cancer that I could not cure because it was a rare type of cancer. Now I can only do radiation to stop the cancer from spreading fast. When I heard the diagnosis, the first thing I worried abo...Read More
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I have had reconstruction of the mandible , neck resection , removal of Rt. fibula , skin graft from Rt femur . Radiation -34 fractions . It has been 2 and a half years . I now have a few white patches in my mouth . I do not do well when having biopsies and am a h...Read More
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Its been 9 months since I had my 12 hour cancer operation. I had squamous cell carcinoma located under my tongue on the right of my jaw. I had my jaw bone replaced with my right fibula.I couldn't wait to get out of hospital afterwards to return to my old job. There...Read More
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4 weeks ago I had injured myself and my mum was delivering a heat pack for my pain. We were talking about her going back to the Dr as her UTI didn’t seem to be clearing. Today I was assisting her in the shower as she was too weak to do it herself. That UTI turned o...Read More
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Discharged from the hospital last Thursday. There is nothing they can help me anymore. For the last 7 years they had been trying everything chemo, immunotherapy, radiation. but so far no successful. I had Lymphoephitelioma small cancer cells. Very slow growing...Read More
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Hi My Name is Allan I have been Diagnosed with neck cancer from an unknown source every step on this journey has been different from the initial diagnosis to seeing the specialists I have had 6 biopsies and a biopsy on the base of my tongue and tonsil area we ...Read More
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My friend has just been diagnosed with Stage 3c lung cancer and head and neck cancer. 6 weeks of radiation and chemo 1 per week.Anyone have any experience with this regarding survival rates etc. thanks
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Hello Everyone, I was diagnosed with Brain Cancer on September 6th 2024. With a massive tumor in the left side of my brain .They were able to remove the tumor at St Micheals on September 10th. My brain cancer is a rare one and as I was told by my Cancef treatment ...Read More
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Hi everyoneIn August 2018 i was diagnosed with cancer in my mouth, after the long surgery in November 2018 i awoke to a whole new world. A world i was not happy with. The entire roof of my mouth had been removed along with a third of my top left jaw bone and accomp...Read More
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