Tag: Cancer
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So You Haven’t Booked Your Smear Test Yet, Read This Then!!!
Why havent you had your smear test done?
What are you scared of?
Are you embarrassed?
Trust me the nurse doesn’t care if you have a hairy vagina
She doesn’t care what colour it is
She doesn’t care what it smells like
She doesn’t care what it looks like
She doesn’t care if you have to bring your kids along
She’s not interested in anything other than your health
You never know, she might save your life Take advantage of the amazing NHS and get your smear now!
I’ve had bad news EVERY time but trust me, it’s a lot better than hearing you’re dying quickly!
Is it worth the risk? No matter who you are, I am sorry to be harsh but, it COULD Happen to you!
Around 9 in 10 woman in England diagnosed with cervical cancer aged 15-39 survive the disease for ive years or more.
Cervical cancer tends to occure in mid-life and is most frequently diagnosed in woman between 35 and 44.
Survival rates depends on many factors including the stage of cervical cancer that is diagnosed.
When detected at an early stage the 5 year survival rate with invasive cervical cancer is 92%.
Woman get booked in for a smear test NOW!!!
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If Your Nails Look Like This It Is A Warning Sign
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2 weeks ago i posted this pic on my wall asking if anyone had seen nails like this. A few google post later and i was urged to go to the Doctor. A tad extreme I thought….
I was rushed for blood tests and a chest x-ray, 2 days later I got a phone call to go for a CT scan, 2 days later a PET scan and more blood test, the day later a breathing test on my lungs and a scan on my heart, the day later an MRI scan then a lung biopsy.
After a gruelling 2 weeks, yesterday I got my results…….Cancer in both my lungs !!!!.
When your nails curve it is often linked to heart and lung disease and its official term is ” clubbing” I had no idea….Did You ????
Hope this post can help someone else in the early stages of cancer.
Big shout out to the NHS you have been excellent and I thank all the staff that have dealt with my diagnosis.
Written by JeanJeannie Williams Taylor
Nail clubbing, also known as digital clubbing, is a deformity of the finger or toe nails associated with a number of diseases, mostly of the heart and lungs. Clubbing for no obvious reason can also occur, but is rare, if you think you may have clubbing of the finger or toe nails please see your doctor or other medical professionals. More than 80% of lung cancer patients will survive for at least a year if diagnosed at the earliest stage compared to around 15% for people diagnosed with the most advanced stage of disease
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Give This Boy One More Chance At Life
On the 1st of February we got told our baby boy had a tumor in his liver. We knew nothing more till he had his biopsy on the 5th. When his results came back it was heartbreaking to listen to.. All 4 sections of his liver had been taken over and they also found it had spread to both lungs. The scan images was the hardest. Seeing this cancer taking up so much of his tiny body!!
He got diagnosed with Hepatoblastoma stage IV. -Hepatoblastoma is a rare tumor that usually occurs in children under 3 and only about 8 children are diagnosed in the UK each year. There are stages I, II, III & IV. Unfortunately Charlie is stage IV which means it’s took over his liver and spread to both his lungs, because of this he will need a liver transplant, but they can’t do this until the cancer in both lungs goes, otherwise it will just spread again to his new liver.
The chemotherapy treatment he’s on is to hopefully clear the cancer in his lungs and shrink the tumor in his liver. He has a scan in Leeds on 5.4.16 which will tell us how he’s responding to the chemo and how ready he might be for his liver transplant. Until then and also after his transplant he carries on with all his treatment as normal (chemotherapy, blood transfusions, platelet transfusions etc) even though he seems happy in himself his survival rate is still only 20%-60%.
We as parents left work to spend as much time as we can with him, but this has meant we have a really low income with hardly no financial support. I’m due to have our 2nd child on the 25.05.16 and Charlie’s 3rd birthday is on the 24.04.16 and we want to make it a very special one so money at the moment is a stress we don’t need. We are coping with what we get but as for weekends away and trips to the zoo etc in between his treatments is a struggle. The money donated isn’t for any treatment as his treatment is on the NHS it’s is literally just for him, and us as a family to make memories.**- wrote before treatment abroad was needed *****
Charlie’s memorise is now raising for private treatment abroad to give him a chance of life.
For Charlie to travel to be given a second chance will cost $1.1 million. Which is approximately£855,580.00 in UK pound.
Please help our baby boy live.
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Breast Cancer Isn’t a Silly Pink Ribbon
While the majority of people believe that Breast Cancer is a pink ribbon, a pink Pom Pom, a pen with a pink ribbon, a tote with a pink ribbon, a cancer “volunteer” at your local shop engaging you to be a “part of the cure.
First, a hard reality, you are not being part of the cure, you’re just throwing your money away to propaganda, uniforms for cheerleaders, and kiosk after kiosk with items from handbags to ziplock bags. It’s all a hoax. They are not trying to fight the cure. Most of their funding goes to advertisement, 6 figure CEO salaries. And when I asked for help, I wasn’t given any, DENIED. Denied by the very people who claimed they would help me in their “advertising”. A pink ribbon isn’t the men and women fighting for their lives with metastatic breast cancer. I cannot comprehend how people can not grasp the simple concept that if you cure stage 4 you cure them all. It’s that simple. You will not have to worry about dying because, there’s a cure if you get to that point.
Breast cancer is often very sexualized. Showing models with fake scars, beautiful bodies and breasts with the strap so perfectly dangling from her shoulder. That’s not what Breast cancer is. It’s CTs, surgeries, amputations, biopsies, MRIs, X-rays, radiation, chemo, IVs, blood tests, fear, worry, hate, anger, confusion, sadness, loneliness, medications, check ups, anxiety, depression, insomnia, pain. It’s so much more than a pink snickers bar because it “supports us!
We do not receive free boob jobs. We have reconstruction. Expanders placed to stretch your skin to fit the implants, complications, tram flap surgeries, sometimes our bodies reject the implants, some choose to go flat, some reconstructions are amazing and look fabulous, some look completely deformed. However, in no way did any of us receive a free boob job. We amputated them and had foreign objects placed in our skin to resembles the breasts we once had. We tattoo our nipples on, we get prosthetic ones, or we go with out. We are in pain.
Save the Tatas, save 2nd base, no bra day with a bunch of nipples poking out in no way supports those with Breast Cancer.
This is what a lot of cancer really looks like!
Pink isn’t pretty, it’s not a ribbon and it definitely doesn’t help us!
If you want to help donte to Macmillan the only ones out there who actually help cancer patients
Full credit Tracie Marie
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Can You Help Save A Police Officers Life
My name is Helen Rayner, I am a publican in Hounslow, west London. I have two daughters 30 year old Jade and 25 year old Amber I am also grandmother to Jades 5 year old daughter, Eva. Jade is married to Gareth who is ex military and now a fitness instructor. Jade is a serving officer in the Metropolitan police force. Life was looking good, they were about to buy their forever family home and turn it into their dream place. Then, overnight, their dreams turned into a nightmare.
In February of 2017 Jade was diagnosed with stage 3c triple negative breast cancer which for those of you that don’t know is a rare and aggressive form of cancer which had already spread to her lymph nodes. Well as you can imagine we as a family were all blown away by this news with the exception of Jade whose attitude towards it was ‘OK, I have it lets get on with it’.
Months of aggressive chemotherapy, surgery and a good hammering of radiotherapy followed yet all the way through Jade was amazing and an inspiration to us all. Not at any time did she complain or whinge, not even when her hair started falling out, she just reached for the clippers and took control. Her sense of humour never faltered and, to be perfectly honest, helped the rest of us through. Her whole focus was on beating this disease and getting back to work and continue with her life.
The day Jade was given the news that she had had a complete pathological response to treatment (the all clear) she left the hospital like her backside was on fire. Her mother literally had to run to keep up with her!
In February 2018, as soon as the doctors permitted, Jade returned to the job she loves albeit on recuperative duties slowly building up her hours with a view to return to full duties in September. But, in late May Jade began suffering from a persistent headache, she just couldn’t shift it. By the first week of June she could stand the pain no more and took herself to A&E. Jade insisted on a CT scan, after revealing her recent medical history they finally agreed to do it. Sadly the results of the scan revealed several masses to Jades brain that were suspected to be the breast cancer that had metastised. Further scans, an MRI and PET resulted in the following diagnosis:
Stage 4 Brain Mets a Total of 7 Tumours
Yes you read that right…..7 metastatic brain tumours. Due to the location and number of tumours surgery to remove them is not an option in the UK.
Jade was referred to the Royal Marsden hospital in London where they performed 3 sessions of stereotactic radiosurgery (the cyber knife). They treated all 7 tumours in a bid to shrink them as much as possible. If this treatment is successful it will buy Jade some time but we wont know how the tumours have reacted until September 2018 when she will be scanned again. In the meantime we are trying holistic therapies, diets and anything else that may help. Then there is the relentless search for treatments in other countries.
In the UK Jade has been given 12-24 months to live, yet in the USA, with the right treatment, people are living for many years with their cancer being classed as dead or sleeping.
We have met with a young woman from the UK by the name of Melissa Huggins who 10 years ago was also given 2 years to live by doctors in the UK and, like us, Melissa’s parents refused to accept the prognosis and took her to the USA for treatment. 10 years on, Melissa is now married with a young daughter. She has no idea if her cancer is dead or sleeping…..but shes still here.
We have found a fantastic clinic in the USA, Duke Health, that believe they can treat Jade, they are currently working on a care plan for specifically for her. But this is going to cost, we are not sure as yet of what that will be in terms of money, but there is no price too high to put on such a sad waste of a beautiful life and the devastation and loss that would ensue should we not achieve our goal and GET JADE WELL so she can watch her daughter grow into as wonderful a woman as her mother is.
As a police officer Jade runs towards danger to help others, now she needs others to help her to be here for Eva.
Please help Jade here https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/justjade
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Had My Mum Listened To Doctors My Sister Would Have Died
I’d like to tell you a story about Alder Hey…. My sister when she was 8 yrs old..was in that hospital and they told my mum .. It’s all in your daughters head, there’s nothing wrong with her, my mother insisted , demanded and banged her fist on the consultants table, I want you to do more tests she’s not putting it on, she’s in bad trouble and screams in pain with her neck, finally after months of them saying my sister wasn’t very poorly, she was found to have an inoperable tumour in her neck, she had to have chemotherapy, and my mother over heard a nurse saying ..”why don’t they let that little girl go home and die in peace” 😳
My sister continued to have radiation treatment and finally came home but my mother was told she would not survive it, although my sister has had numerous health issues over the years because of the effects of radiation and another flare of cancer can I just say that my sister is now 72 and defied all their odds…. So even years ago they got it so badly wrong at Alder hey, can you imagine if my mum had of listened to them and given up!!!
Parents if you feel that Doctors are wrong or you want more tests done do not just take a Doctors word for it, a mother’s instict is often right, some times even the most trained professional can be mistaken
Credit Suzie Ria Smith
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Ladies Stop Being So Weak You Got This
I want everyone who’s out there crying over a man to read this.
I was diagnosed stage 3 of breast cancer when I was six months pregnant with my son, my life changed forever after that❗ After my son was born his dad walked right out my life, He didn’t give two fucks that I was dying, 😓 he had more important things he had in mind as far as his life.
I had only had my son home for a week… could only hold him with my left arm because I had my breast removed TWO DAYS BEFORE. I could barely feed him but I DID IT…I could barely change him BUT I DID it… yes I cried… yes I screamed… I BEGGED god 🙏🏼 to not let me go through all this at one time…but I had to fight it!
I could barely feed my damn self. I almost didn’t make it through the first week. But look at me now 6 weeks on still fighting, still breathing and still being an amazing um to my awesome son. If I can do it with nobody by my side I sure as hell know you women can also!
Stop being so weak. Stop letting people see you guys go crazy over someone who DOESNT give a damn about u! I had to deal with my man leaving me not caring I barely had much time left. But it’s okay! Shit happens! Stay strong! Because now I’m smiling and almost done with radiation and will have both of my breasts back soon. The crying is over! I’ve never felt stronger in my life.
Be strong ladies, be brave and most importantly be the best mum you can be, you got this girl.
Written by the amazingly strong Bianca Rodriguez
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Waiting For Cancer Treatment Because I Do Not Help Government Stats
Charlotte Armstrong has taken to Facebook to warn others about an Nhs and government tick list.
Armstrong said “Actually disgusted at the Nhs!!! So basically I was diagnosed with endometrial cancer stage 2 over 4 weeks ago…..basically it started in my womb and it has moved to my cervix too!
I Was told because I’m not on the governments tick list for getting their stats up with cervical and ovarian cancer I do not need to be seen as urgently as others do!
I Just phoned them only to be told there is other urgent cases and I’m still on the waiting list!!! Sounds selfish or not I have cancer too!!!! I’m so disgusted at this…….to top it off I was left to rot for 10+ years with pcos (Polycystic ovary syndrome) no treatment or anything because I was overweight so I do not count!
I have never cost the nhs a penny in my entire life and the one time i need them to help I’m not on the make the government look good scale so fuck me!!!!!! 😠😠😠😠 rant over FEEL FREE TO SHARE THIS AS MANY PEOPLE AREN’T AWARE OF THESE RULES REGARDING STATISTICS BY THE GOVERNMENT!!!! ALSO THERE IS ONLY ONE HOSPITAL IN THE WEST OF SCOTLAND THAT DEALS WITH THIS TYPE OF SURGERY……THE FULL WEST OF SCOTLANDS FEMALE POPULATION WHO NEED HYSTERECTOMY DUE TO CANCER….ONE WARD!!!!!!
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Derek Will Not Kill Me I Won’t Let Him
Derek will not kill me I won’t let him.
Three months ago I was diagnosed with a Cancerous tumour on my brain.
My loving husband Philip was sat by my side as the doctor told me, and explained about the treatment I would need, I couldn’t take it all in at the time but have come to terms now that I have a long hard battle ahead.
On the drive to my parents to collect my children it dawned on me I would have to tell my young children but how, how do you tell your children that you will lose your hair, you will be in pain, you will vomit and you won’t be able to do the things you want to do without help and will ave t spend a lot of time at the hospital.
Morgan is 6 and Summer 4 both were far too young to understand what Cancer was and I didn’t want them to be scared my husband and I spoke at length at how to tell them and we had a starting plan.
I made my husband sit them down and he said “mummy has a naughty lump in her head called Derek, but the doctors have a super juice called Betty that will help kick Derek out, but Betty is so powerful that mummy’s hair might fall out, and mummy may get tired or be a little ill but Betty is going to get naughty Derek out”.
My beautiful young children know that Derek makes mummy ill and will talk to him and tell him to get out.
I didn’t want to scare my babies and every day they thank Betty for making my hair come out in clumps, Betty is doing her job and my babies understand that when I throwing up or struggle to get out of bed that it’s for a good reason, when mummy is at hospital she’s going to visit her hero little miss Betty.
Betty will not let Derek kill my babies mum I’m going to fight this every day and it helps so much that my children aren’t scared and don’t quite understand.
Betty and I are going to kick Dereks arse