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Treatments and side effects

Chemo & pancreatic cancer

Howdy all,I’m due to commence chemo in a couple of weeks and super curious about how others who have had the folfirinox combo have experienced & coped with side effects

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Brachytherapy

I'm about to undergo brachytherapy for endometrial carcinoma. I'm a bit apprehensive about it, sounds not so nice. Wondering what others experiences have been.

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Hello everyone here, I am in week 4 of treatment for head and neck cancer and this is the harshest thing I've ever had to go through. Chemotherapy weekly and radiation daily are making me feel so ill. Slowly I am not getting to do the things I love. I feel worse ev...Read More

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Armidex

Can I ask if anyone has been on this medication. I have been taking for 2 years , but i am suddenly starting to get all the side effects - ie aching bones & joints . I feel like an 80 year old in a 56 year old body . I feel tired all the time & just don't feel my...Read More

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Stomach Cancer

New to Cancer... Just had 2/3 of stomach removed and starting chemo/radiation soon. Looking for others like me. Thanks

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Liver cancer 3/4

my father has been diagnosed with colon cancer 2 years ago and he have got a surgery to eradicate the cancer ....and he have been taking the chemotherapy for a year then the cancer spread to the liver and now the liver cancer is in late stage 3 or begging of stag...Read More

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Late side effects or re-occurance

Hi all, Finished my treatment (35 Radiation and 3 Chemo) on the 27 November 2020. The past 3 months have been great. Gradually got 50-75% of my taste back, all my saliva back, exercising daily and no swallowing issues). Two weeks ago my neck started to swell and ...Read More

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Preventing Cancer in the first place

Hi, this is something that i think of often. And just wander if anyone out there in the Cancer community particular in the scientific research has ever pondered the following. I would love a response. For example I regularly enjoy Coke No sugar which I know is not ...Read More

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Tamoxifen

hello my name is Jo im 49 i have been on Tamoxifen for six months and have started to have very bad side effects i feel dizzy my anxiety has worsened i have depression i already had anxiety before starting these tablets so that is heightened is this normal pl...Read More

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Considering no Treatment

Wondering if anyone on here has considered or has refused treatment. In the past year I’ve had an Anal Cancer diagnosis, gone through radiation and chemo where I had to relocate to the city for the 7 week treatment away from family and friends and needing to take ...Read More

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