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Hello everyone, wishing everybody my heartfelt thoughts through your journey either with yourself or with your family.I have a question - my daughter who is now 5 was diagnosed at 3 years old with Medulloblastoma (brain and spine cancer) . We were in the hospital ...Read More

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My treatment for breast cancer

I have had chemo for it. and radiation and bloody hell I have chemo on monday

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Lonsurf

I was diagnosed at the age off 33 with bowel cancer after trying many treatments, intravenus and oral with having the spots i have left still active over 3.5 years.Just recently i have started taking lonsurf an oral chemo tablet which has just recently come on the ...Read More

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Letrozole

Hello im now on letrozole cause of my bad side affects with tamoxifen have been letrozole for 3 months and now im getting that dizziness I feel tired all the time I cant sleep I have bad anxiety again I do not want this drug to interfere with my everyday life again...Read More

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Thyroid cancer with large poorly differentiated papillary carcinoma on my left neck

Hi, after a 4 week bout of scratchy voice last September I finally went to my GP who wanting to be thorough ordered CT scans of sinuses and chest. Long story short I was diagnosed with Thyroid cancer and a T4N1B M1 Poorly differentiated papillary carcinoma on there...Read More

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Anal Cancer and side effects from chemo and radiation

May 2017 I was diagnosed with anal cancer, because I was have cancer mapping done every 6 months they caught it quickly. I commenced chemo and radiation in June 2017 for every day for 6 weeks (radiation) and two courses of chemo. On completion of these courses I ...Read More

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Capecitabine rash

Hi guys. I’m stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. I’m on 2300mg of capecitabine tablets daily. I’m struggling with a rash side effect, any helpful hints?

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Alternatives to Tamoxifen

I was diagnosed with early breast cancer HER+ with surgery in July. I am 50% through radiation and have been told Tamoxifen for 5 years. I am doing everything I can to avoid it and am very depressed reading the posts. Any views on alternatives?

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More Xeloda side effects

Hello, I'm hoping my experience with Xeloda side effects might help others who are taking this drug. I take it one week on, one week off. While I'm taking it, I feel more exhausted, am constipated, sometimes cry uncontrollably, and my heartbeat is harder. I've f...Read More

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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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