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🧡 Honouring the Small Wins

Living with cancer can bring many challenges, and it’s okay that some moments feel heavy. Alongside that, there are also moments of strength and resilience that often go unnoticed. Let’s take a moment to celebrate some small wins, whether they happened recently o...Read More

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Treatment course suggestion

Hi,TL; DR: Need innovative suggestion to handle metastasis hindering digestionMy dad (53 years) got diagnosed with rectosigmoid cancer last June and underwent surgery and 8 sittings of chemo.A month after the chemotherapy ended, the cancer came back much more aggre...Read More

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Trying to stay ahead of it.

Hi, my name is David and I'm 63. A CT scan in early January found a tumour on my pancreas that had spread to my liver. Stage 4. After the biopsy, it was confirmed to be a small cell carcinoma pancreatic cancer. A rare and very aggressive form that puts me into the ...Read More

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Mornington Peninsula based.

Hello, I’m 52 and have cancer. I am female. I wondering what support groups are down this way and how best to meet other cancer patients for friendship, etc.

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Stage 4 Breast Cancer in the bones.

I am 85 and had Breast Cancer in 2000. In 2023 it came back.I would like to make contact with people going on the same journey. I’m on Fulvestrant, Qeskali and xgevia and doing well 2 yrs since diagnosis. LynnG

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Breast cancer recurrence now metastasised

Hello, the past two weeks have been overwhelming. I had breast cancer 12 years ago followed by a bilateral mastectomy and recently felt a lump in the same breast. I had an ultra sound and pet scan 4 days ago and the disease has spread to my back and spine. At this ...Read More

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So scared

Hi I’m 54 and recently been diagnosed with breast cancer lobular carcinoma in my right breast and waiting to have a mri biopsy on my left as previous has shown possible cancer in left … I’m currently going to Westmead breast cancer clinic they are so great … but I’...Read More

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Ovarian Cancer journey since Aug 2025

Hi All, I am finding these forums to be a good way to express myself. So here goes….. In August unexpectedly I was told a mass was found near my ovary,in a scan that was non related at all.Then a rush of tests, referral to a Gynae Oncologist and surgery by mid Oct...Read More

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Pelvic excenteration

Hi my name is Lindy and I have been recently faced with the prospect of total pelvic exenteration sorry can't get the spelling right. This has given me a great deal of different emotions and do I do it or not. Neither options I have been given are fantastic. I was ...Read More

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New here and new to cancer

Recently diagnosed with stage 3 Ovarian cancer. Not sure how to process this information. I am stuck

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