I was a busy mother of two girls and working as a reporter at my local news station alongside my husband. We always had a million things we were juggling, but I knew it was important to make time for regular cervical cancer screenings.
I have a grea...
Rare Cancers
February 28th is Rare Diseases Day. We would like to take a moment to highlight rare cancers.
There are over 200 different types of cancer. Rare cancers are uncommon cancers, only a small number of people are diagnosed with these ...
Hello! I’m starting chemo in less than two weeks, so decided to go to the dentist yesterday. Turns out I need a couple of fillings. I’m just wondering if this is something I should get sorted asap before my first infusion or if there’s time to get th...
Hi everyone
I'm looking for advice please. Last Tuesday I found a lump in my right breast. I went to my GP the next day. She found another lump in the same breast. I'm almost 40. I don't have any children.
I've been referred to Beaumont clinic bu...
Hi I'm Chris newly diagnosed kidney waiting to see urologist it's hard going I'm 52
Don't know what to expect with treatments etc
Recently my father diagnosed too with stage 4 lung and kidney cancer and I'm also a carer for my mam who has dementi...
Hi everyone, I am just wondering if anyone else has experienced this. I had a lumpectomy a year ago, followed by chemo and radiotherapy, herceptin and tamoxifen. Now my left breast, where I had the lumpectomy, is a good lot bigger than the healthy br...
Has anyone been able to get access to Abemaciclib? It is not yet approved for reimbursement by the HSE but I wondered if anyone has been able to get it prescribed privately. I think it costs about €3k a month....
My Dad has been undergoing treatment for prostate cancer about 15 years. My Mam had a lumpectomy for breast cancer in Jun 2021. Mam has since been taking hormones after radiotherapy and is quite well. My Dad has just found out his cancer is now "a...
I've been living with stage four positive breast cancer for 4 years now my cancer has mutated to triple-negative and I cannot be treated with Pembrolizumab.
Looking for people to talk i...
My Mam passed away 3 weeks ago today, she had non Hodgkins lymphoma she went through five rounds of treatment including a car T cell.
I am so lost without she was my whole world. It was just the two of us we don everything together.
I am so los...
Good morning, i recently had a cardiac mri its showed 11mm auxiliary nodes as an extra finding. I had my first appt within 5 days of referral. Had mamogram yesterday and have to go back for a scan. Has anyone had similar. My doctor was very rude ...
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