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Diagnosed with Cancer

Have you been diagnosed with cancer? Share your story and talk about your diagnosis, treatment and coping mechanisms here. Topics about all kinds of cancer go here, including cervical and ovarian cancer, colon and rectal cancer, leukemia, lung cancer, lymphomas, skin cancer, and uterine cancer.

DIY Bowel Cancer Screening To Save Over 2,200 Lives A Year

Researchers have reported that the new DIY bowel cancer tests are estimated to preserve over 2,200 lives in the UK every year by 2025. The tests - known as faecal occult blood (FOB) tests will be posted every two years to people who are aged between 60 and 74. The programme began in England in...

by User avatar DennisD.

Basosquamous Skin Caner

Im a 40 yr old female. I had a place removed from my face on my cheek beside my nose. the results came back basosquamous....Is this cancer very common ? should I be concerned at all. I have to go back to the office to have the area scraped and get stiches. Can this kind of skin cancer spread to...

by User avatar tgilliam102595

Can the chemo drugs cytoxan or taxotere cause squamous cell carcinoma?

Hello, My grandmother was under heavy chemotherapy (cytoxan, taxotere) and radiation for stage 4 breast cancer. The first thing that became apparent after her first round of radiation is that moles on her left arm started to change. The changes continued and now she has a growths on her left cheek...

by User avatar Guest

life expectancy for metastatic breast cancer

My colleague is 46 years old and she is diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. I won’t explain you how terrible I felt when I heard this news. She is one of the kindest persons I have ever met. I would like to know more about the life expectancy for the patients with this kind of diagnosis.

by User avatar florencia632149816

Reoccurance of thyroid cancer?

Answered by a doctor

I was diagnosed with Papilliary thryoid cancer 7 years ago. I had total thyroidectomy with left and right neck disection followed by radioactive iodine. My Tg levels went from 3 down to 1.4 but was generally around 2. The doctors have continued to monitor me on a yearly basis and expressed no...

by User avatar hannahbbd87332

Information about radioisotope therapy

:( My dad who is in his seventys was diagnosed with lung cancer. Thank God, it is in stage one! The bad news is he has a heart condition where the heart valve sometimes sticks. The lung cancer surgeon says he could likely get the cancer completely out, but won't attempt to till the heart is fixed....

by User avatar fawnfriend

Japanese still struggling with the effects of atomic bombs

Five years after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, The Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission conducted a long-term research to determine the effects of radiation exposure. The study included over 120,000 survivors. Another study was conducted just a few years ago with...

by User avatar Bobby

Risk Of Cervical Cancer Present Even 25 Years After Treatment

Recent study informed public that woman who were treated of pre - cancerous lesions have a risk of developing invasive cancer even 25 years after treatment. Experts advise cytological smears should be offered at regular intervals for 25 years after woman had severe dysplasia/Carcinoma in situ (CIS)....

by User avatar Mark

Three types of cancer-colon, liver, ovarian

Hello: I have a friend that was recently diagnosed first with ovarian cancer but with further tests they have determined that she also has colon and liver cancer. Has anyone else experienced these three combined together that can offer some personal experience and advice?

by User avatar Guest

multiple myeloma/bowel cancer

my brother had prostate cancer 6 yrs ago.. since then he has developed multiple myeloma, just about to have his stem cells harvested he has been diagnosed with bowel cancer.. hence stem cell harveting has been delayed.. please help with diagnosis ... Polly

by User avatar Guest