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Your space to discuss the impact of living with cancer. It can help to share with people who understand.

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    Omentum cancer, under the care of the palliative care team

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    VaIN 3 - results from biopsy. Will be having an appointment with a consultant soon but nothing mentioned about the procedure I'm meant to have. Is this right?

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    Stage 3 - over a year since I was diagnosed but struggling to talk about it

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    Palliative Care what is their role? It feels like we've been left to look after my dad by ourselves

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    NLPHL (Nodular Lymphocyte Predominant Hodgkin Lymphoma)- does anyone else have this? My son has relapsed

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    Brain tumour

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    Struggling with the news I've been referred on the 2 week pathway

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    VIN 3/Vulva cancer - waiting for biopsy results. How was the news delivered to you?

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    Acting like a Cancer

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    My Dear mum passed away just a week after finding out she had gallbladder cancer. I still can't get my head round it. My heart is broken.

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    Mam diagnosed with incurable Stage 4 lung cancer spread to brain and bone. Struggling to cope

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    Stage 3 lung cancer. After Lung infection I still have shortness of breath and dry cough. Will it improve

    Started by Santos9769 in Ask the nurses
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