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Lung Cancer Information Day - Coventry 20th July 2016

Hi Everyone, We are hosting a Lung Cancer Information Day in Coventry 20th July, which offers support and information to people affected by lung cancer. Hear...

Hi Everyone, We are hosting a Lung Cancer Information Day in Coventry 20th July,...

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Roy Castle•8 years ago

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New Travelling and going on holiday booklet

Hello everyone I am in the final stages of getting this exiting new booklet ready to go to the design process and am keen to get some great holiday photographs...

Hello everyone I am in the final stages of getting this exiting new booklet read...

•8 years ago

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Brachytherapy

Has anyone had it?

Has anyone had it?

•8 years ago

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Squamous cell

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Hi I'm new here

•8 years ago

Nintedanib and Docetaxel

Hi All, Its been a while since I posted but I have kept reading all the posts. I had Pemetrexed and Cisplatin finishing in April last year. I'm stage IV Lung...

Hi All, Its been a while since I posted but I have kept reading all the posts. ...

•8 years ago

Paclitaxel

I am ALK positive and have been on inhibitors just for a matter of weeks but the consultant thinks the side effects are to harsh so wants to put me on iv chemo...

I am ALK positive and have been on inhibitors just for a matter of weeks but the...

•8 years ago

BILL

Hi everyone My lovely Bill died on Friday at home with his family round him.My sincere thanks to everyone on this site that replied to my posts it did help to...

Hi everyone My lovely Bill died on Friday at home with his family round him.My ...

•8 years ago

my dad just found out he has lung cancer

i was with my dad as he got this terrible news yest, im not sure if he is at a late stage or not, if i go off what ive read and how the scans looked he seems...

i was with my dad as he got this terrible news yest, im not sure if he is at a l...

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•8 years ago

Help improve cancer data

Macmillan Cancer Support and Cancer Research UK are reviewing how cancer patients in England could be better informed about the use of their data in cancer...

Macmillan Cancer Support and Cancer Research UK are reviewing how cancer patient...

•8 years ago

Getting to the end of the road

Hi everyone since my last post things have gone downhill rapidly.didn't manage to get to see oncologist as Bill too ill.GP came with results of scan cancer...

Hi everyone since my last post things have gone downhill rapidly.didn't manage t...

•8 years ago

Has my husbands cancer come back

Thanks for the messages I got have seen consoltant wasnt good news it has come back in lung has to have more tests pet scan head scan .we go back on 22nd June...

Thanks for the messages I got have seen consoltant wasnt good news it has come b...

•8 years ago

Nivolumab

Hi All its drug submission time again. This time it is Nivolumab for Non squamous Lung Cancer. I know some people responded to my last request for help, so...

Hi All its drug submission time again. This time it is Nivolumab for Non squamo...

Partner•8 years ago

Alternative therapies- apricot kernels

Hi, Here's a picture of me and mum from the weekend when we went to a food festival. Today I'm travelling back down south, 250 miles, but coming back...

Hi, Here's a picture of me and mum from the weekend when we went to a food fest...

•8 years ago

ALK positive

If you are ALK positive, would you be able to let me know what treatment you have received. I have had specific chemotherapy permatrexate n cisplatin, then...

If you are ALK positive, would you be able to let me know what treatment you hav...

•8 years ago

Has cancer come back

Haven't wrote on here for some time .my husband who had part off lung removed and didn't want chemo after .his 71 .his had quite a few chest infections .but...

Haven't wrote on here for some time .my husband who had part off lung removed an...

•8 years ago

Thank you

Thank you for your replies to my cry for help.Bills sister has come over from Australia first time back after 40 year he so pleased to see her and wants so...

Thank you for your replies to my cry for help.Bills sister has come over from Au...

•8 years ago

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Stage 2b adenocarcinoma looking for support and advice!

Hello. First time on here. I'm a 46 year old woman with 2 children 9 and 12 and never smoked and have been found to have adenocarcinoma lung 2b n0m0 on 29/4/16...

Hello. First time on here. I'm a 46 year old woman with 2 children 9 and 12 and ...

•8 years ago

Update on mum

Appointment as expected. Results stage 4 cancer that has spread to pleura. Only option is chemo and clinical trial. Not positive for EGFR or ALK. The only...

Appointment as expected. Results stage 4 cancer that has spread to pleura. Only ...

•8 years ago

Looseing hope

Hi all Bill now been out of hospital over a week the pain in his back not getting any better stopped oramorph as he didn't like side effects (severe...

Hi all Bill now been out of hospital over a week the pain in his back not gettin...

•8 years ago

Lung Cancer Information Day - Kent 10th June 2016

Hi Everyone, We are hosting a Lung Cancer Information Day in Kent 10th June which offers support and information to people affected by lung cancer. Hear from...

Hi Everyone, We are hosting a Lung Cancer Information Day in Kent 10th June whi...

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Roy Castle•8 years ago

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suitable clinical trials

i have just completed your survey which asks if I would like to know about suitable clinical trials. I have ticked the yes box but am unsure about where to...

i have just completed your survey which asks if I would like to know about suita...

•8 years ago

Mum diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer which has spread to pleura

Hi All, today I have found out my mums lung cancer has returned after 3 years of having a right lobectomy, with no follow up. She had an X-ray last September...

Hi All, today I have found out my mums lung cancer has returned after 3 years of...

•8 years ago