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Hi all. Has anyone experienced peau d'orange on their breast with implant reconstruction. Have an appointment tommorow to have it checked. I am nearly a year post surgery.Thought it might be capsular contracture which i can deal with but am freaking out now because did the worst thing and googled it and its all about inflammatory breast cancer which has just added to my stress level. If anyone has experienced this symptom and can tell me their experience i would appreciate the insight. Thanks

I am 58yrs and have been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer, I underwent surgery twice. have been prescribed Tamoxofin and was I am worried about the side effects of this drug, I am a wheelchair user and my mobility is not great and the risk of blood clots from tamoxofin worries my especially. any feedback welcome.

Eleven days since my Robotic Prostrate Surgery...what do I expect ???

I am surprised by the very little activity in this page re prostrate surgery.I was expecting a lot more conversation.

My name is Yi Du, I am from China. I have been resident in Ireland for 18 years. My mother is diagnosed lung cancer 2 weeks ago, the whole family is in a huge depression and I went back to her immediately to support her. Saying “diagnosis” I mean my mother feels a chest pain one day and went to see a doctor, then she is taken to do a chest CT. The image of CT shows a big shadow in the her lung. The doctor says it’s lung cancer. In China, cancer is a death sentence, incurable illness which cost people everything to survive a bit longer. She is giving up when she heard about her illness. I convinced her and promise I’ll try my best to find a treatment for her. Then we did a pet-CT, the image shows the tumour has transferred to nearby tissue, pleur and ribs. Then we did a pneumococcal biopsy(lung puncture), but the doctors failed to take enough biopsy. We did it again and third time. I was told to get a result yesterday and they said they could not identify what type of lung cancer it is and let me wait for longer. I was very disappointed about the doctors. I decided to bring my mother to Ireland and get treatment here. I found a company named oncologica that do both target therapy and immunotherapy. I am very interested. I wonder if my mother will get routine histology biopsy taken in Dublin and give the biopsy to oncologica. I sincerely appreciated if anyone could tell me the procedure of treating cancer in Ireland. Please instruct me what should I do next. Yi

My Mother in law has recently found out she has sclc. My concern is her home, its mouldy damp and has 20 years of dust build up. She is currently in hospital with pneumonia. I fear the dust etc will cause her to become ill again. Do we treat this the same way we would treat an asthmatic? I also fear her care when she comes home from hospital. Can anyone give me some advice?

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Hi had neck cancer consisting of tumour on voice box in November 2017 was brought to Galway and a trachy was put in place because tumour was blocking air way....the MRI an the CT were done an also cancer on tongue...I was in no pain an felt healthy Was in hospital November right threw till February....had 36 Radium and 1 large chemotherapy session Home in February felt fine didn't need any medication for pain doing daily chores etc out driving around Then the follow up scans started in April which showed that treatments did not work More scans an biopsy done in Galway till August 2018 showing cancer still on voice box Referee to start James in Dublin where in September there was a clinic an in October there followed more scans and it just shows the voice box and some glands having cancer......so happy enough to do a lyranectomy but before the surgery he decides to do a final biopsy .......which revealed the cancer in tongue an osepagus the lyrnx an pharynx plus the voice box and the glands ......so surgery out of question at this stage as I would end up worse than I Ammar the moment......which is by the way still no pain an just have the trachy.....still able to function as normal Just waiting around now for idea of next step........please anyone reading this don't put off a sore throat as flu or cold get it seen by a ENT doctor straight away if it last more than 2 days

Hi folks I have recently been diagnosed with stage 2 TNBC. I have had a mastectomy and am due to start chemo in early January. I’m absolutely terrified as when I google TNBC it’s so negative. I don’t know anyone who has had TNBC so any help or advice would be really appreciated

I badly need some advice. I'm in the middle of chemo for breast cancer and have to monitor my temperature for signs of infection. I was advised to buy a Braun ear thermometer and it's driving me insane. The readings are wildly erratic. At one stage it read 39.1 in one ear and 36.9 in the other - which can be the diference bewteen a rush to hospital and not having to worry (my digtal oral thermometer gave a reading of 37.4). The same ear can vary hugely within seconds. I've just come out of hospital after 5 days of febilre neutropenia. My temperature was reading normal every time they took it in the hospital but as soon as I was home, my thermometer decided I was 38.4. Has anyone else had this problem? (Some on line reviews would suggest I'm not the only one) Can someone recommend a reliable ear thermomter?