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My father recently got diagnosed with lung cancer and then a few days later diagnosed with cancer in the brain which spread from if lung, from what I’m reading is this stage 4 cancer, as the doctors want to start chemotherapy very soon but I a...
My husband's cancer is very aggressive and told today now in brain. Diagnosed 10 weks ago. If lucky only weeks left. We expectation of chemotherapy helping and extending life. Not an option now . I'm reeling myself and don't know how to tell them ...
Hi my name is Annie and I live in wexford.
I was diagnosed with stage 4 hodgkin's lymphoma in my chest and bones 2 weeks ago.
I am really struggling with sleep and money worries 😟
I feel so lonely when my partner and son are at work and school.
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Can you please tell me what the standard treatment for atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH) is?
I was diagnosed with this after a biopsy for a cluster of microcalcifications in the right breast. I have other risk factors: strong family history of breas...
I am a 37 year old mother of two and I recently found out that they found a grade 1 carcinoid in my appendix (thankfully removed now) but I was told by Limerick (no formal meeting with them or appointment just third hand information as I was in a dif...
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I had surgery on the 17 Sep to remove either a fibrodenoma, or a phyllodes tumour from. My breast in Galway.
I know the consultants meet every Thurs to discuss cases. I'm expecting an update today.
Does anyone know if you always get a p...
I am stage 4 with as my consultant has said, He has very aggressive rapidly castrate-resistant metastatic prostate cancer.
He has told me I will need Pluvicto now or in the very near future. We had applied to the Treatment Abroad Scheme as this trea...
Hello Everyone,
My journey with a cancer just began. I'm 42yo Mam of 1 child. Working for many years helping people with disabilities...and now not being able to do much.
I wasn't feeling well since July 2024 and went through many scans, biopsies j...
Hello,
My Mom was recently diagnosed with Luminal B breast cancer. She is in Poland, so very little support from health service there. The cancer is now widely spread to her lungs, lymphnodes and bones. I have two questions, I hope you don't mind.
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I had to have a full mastectomy 2 years ago, and I ended up waiting nearly 18 months before seeing the plastic surgeon about reconstruction even though I asked to be referred before I left the hospital after my initial surgery. I was told I wouldn’t ...
My story is that I had no symptoms, went to my amazing doctor with a cough, she found that I was tender on my lower left back so sent me to a walk in ultrasound clinic where they discovered the tumour. I had a whipple in April, the cancer had not spr...
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