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The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation

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another update on chemo

Hi, hope you are all as well as can be, Just spent overnight in the hospital, I had nearly finished my third chemo cycle but was feeling so unwell with...

Hi, hope you are all as well as can be, Just spent overnight in the hospital, ...

•9 years ago

Update

Hi folks, quick update, ct scan shows no growth, consultant says it's stable, so I'm happy with results, well sun is shining so I'm off out, have a good...

Hi folks, quick update, ct scan shows no growth, consultant says it's stable, s...

•9 years ago

Robert Michael Strzemp's journey to beat lung cancer

My husband, Robert Michael Strzemp, was diagnosed with lung cancer a month ago. Today we went back to his oncologist for results from a PET scan and MRI of...

My husband, Robert Michael Strzemp, was diagnosed with lung cancer a month ago. ...

•9 years ago

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Wheel of Fortune Update

Rights fellow gamblers I have spun the Wheel of Chemo 4 times and ended up on..... Stable!,,!! Okay it's not the jackpot and it's not the booby prize so we say...

Rights fellow gamblers I have spun the Wheel of Chemo 4 times and ended up on......

•9 years ago

Staging

My mum is due to go for a biospy after a scan and CT scan showed a shadow in top of right hand lung. She only went to docs after she had a cough that would go...

My mum is due to go for a biospy after a scan and CT scan showed a shadow in top...

•9 years ago

Ok day 5 post chemo

Not exactly feeling great at this point more chemo due on Tuesday ,feeling yuk off and on but the main problem is pain throbbing in my arm where the lovely...

Not exactly feeling great at this point more chemo due on Tuesday ,feeling yuk o...

•9 years ago

Mum is likely to have lung cancer

Hi, my world has been blown apart in recent days by the news that my mum probably has lung cancer. I lost my dad 4 years ago and its taken my mum a long time...

Hi, my world has been blown apart in recent days by the news that my mum probabl...

•9 years ago

Fasting prior to chemo days

Hi I have just read an article regarding fasting prior and after chemo and its effects on reducing the bad effects on side effects that occur to good cells...

Hi I have just read an article regarding fasting prior and after chemo and its e...

•9 years ago

Spring/summer edition of Inspire lung cancer magazine out now

The new Spring/Summer edition of Inspire Lung Cancer Magazine is now available - the free magazine for people who are living with lung cancer and their carers....

The new Spring/Summer edition of Inspire Lung Cancer Magazine is now available -...

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Chemo days

Hi just started adjuvant chemo ,l have been feeling very resistant to have this but my histology wasn't as rosie as first described from surgery so here l am...

Hi just started adjuvant chemo ,l have been feeling very resistant to have this ...

•9 years ago

More tests

Hi everyone It's been a while since I posted. I finished my chemo/radiation treatment in December 2014 and had a few ups and downs but overall a general...

Hi everyone It's been a while since I posted. I finished my chemo/radiation trea...

•9 years ago

Terminal Lung cancer

I have just finished 3mths of chemo (30th March) and the tumor showed that it had shrunk by more than half. At the time of seeing my consultant ,the CT I had...

I have just finished 3mths of chemo (30th March) and the tumor showed that it ha...

•9 years ago

Good News

Hi Everyone Had good news yesterday at follow up hospital visit. Was told tumour was a grade 1a type and small so do not have to have any more treatment....

Hi Everyone Had good news yesterday at follow up hospital visit. Was told tumou...

•9 years ago

Weird Symptom

Hi everyone, just a bit of a weird question, has anyone suffered with itching and weird heat like spots growing on the side where their Cancer is. I have six...

Hi everyone, just a bit of a weird question, has anyone suffered with itching an...

•9 years ago

Bottom Lobe of Right Lung Removed.

Hi I had the bottom lobe of my right lung removed 5 weeks ago. It was done by key hole surgery. Had 4 nights in hospital. I feel fine in myself apart from...

Hi I had the bottom lobe of my right lung removed 5 weeks ago. It was done by k...

•9 years ago

Acupuncture for post op lobectomy pain in elbow and chest a.Has anyone tried it.

Hi I had a right upper lobectomy 20th of March and still have some annoying aching throbbing pains associated with under sternum, back shoulder right arm elbow...

Hi I had a right upper lobectomy 20th of March and still have some annoying achi...

•9 years ago

Lobectomy middle and bottom lobe right lung.r 5 days

Hi Everyone, I had surgery on March 17th to remove large cancer tumour from middle lobe of right lung they also had to take most of the bottom lobe as well. I...

Hi Everyone, I had surgery on March 17th to remove large cancer tumour from midd...

•9 years ago

Still in Remission

Its been a while since I posted on here, have been a busy bunny!! Just to give some hope to you guys out there, I have had quite a journey with the Big C -...

Its been a while since I posted on here, have been a busy bunny!! Just to give s...

•9 years ago

The Results are In

Just saw my Oncologist and after a two week wait has confirmed that I have Lung Cancer localised in the left lung. My Tamoxifen, which I was on for Breast...

Just saw my Oncologist and after a two week wait has confirmed that I have Lung ...

•9 years ago

tojow2

Can anyone suggest help for my sister please. She has lung cancer and has had 4 cycles of cisplatin/pemetrexed - she is now on maintenance pemetrexed only on...

Can anyone suggest help for my sister please. She has lung cancer and has had 4...

•9 years ago

At last Hurrah

Well I have just taken the last tablet involved in my chemotherapy regime hurrah. I found it pretty tough going over this past 12 weeks but I'm hopeful that it...

Well I have just taken the last tablet involved in my chemotherapy regime hurrah...

•9 years ago