Hi there, I'm a 37 year old mum of three recently diagnosed with cancer of the kidney 11 weeks ago. I am recovering from a right radical nephrectomy and have started treatment... Sutent. Just wondering if anyone out there has been through similar????...
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I recently had a kidney removed due to a 7cm tumour. The whole kidney, adrenal gland and lymph nodes were also removed. Two further lymph nodes were detected under my collarbone so as a result I have been prescribed Sutent as part of a ...
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My hair fell out when I was on AC but started growing back once I finished it and continued to grow once I started taxol. It's currently just over an inch in length and I've been moaning about how ridiculous it looks for the past week or two...
Hi again, I've completed by chemo regime and I'm just after my mastectomy and have to take tamoxifin for the next 5yrs. I feeling so good again that I'm dreading going back on drugs again!!! I have read the leaflet and the common side effects are ...
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Just wondering has anyone else here went down the route of freezing embryos belfry chemo? The whole process takes about two weeks if they are successful in retrieving eggs first. It involves lots of scans, injections etc. what worries ...
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Am planning on a return to work to a new job. Starting the application process now but there is a hole in the CV due to cancer. Do you mention it or not. Feel like no one will touch you with a barge pole when you are in remissi...
I got off lightly on the 4 AC, only had a couple of very bad days each cycle. The prospect of 12 weekly taxol is a bit daunting. I'll be starting this Thursday and have 10 steroids to take Wednesday night and then whatever they give me as pre-meds. ...
Hi, I've been on tamoxifen for about 2 and a half years without too many problems. My periods had stopped during chemo, I had one after chemo (end 2011) and up until yesterday had none since. I'm 43. Then yesterday as I was going to get my smear, nur...
I was out at a sporting event with friends, a sport I would normally be very active in but am not at the moment so I went to support a few friends. It was the first time I noticed being avoided. A wave from behind the closed window of the car or th...
[color=#BF0040:82ua6k5m]I'm a year finished my chemo and radiotherapy, during which I lost my hair. It grew back very grey initially but I decided to brave the grey. As it continued to grow I noticed blonde and honey brown colours coming through. I h...
I have to have a repeat CT scan in August as the first one showed a cyst on my kidney and my liver. Im so scared about it , Ive just had Breast caner and a mastectomy and Im so scared that there is other cancer there although they said it isnt cance...
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