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Just diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer: What treatments help?
Kidney Cancer | Last Active: Mar 23 7:37pm | Replies (24)Comment receiving replies
Thank you,
they do want to cut it out after they get it under control they said.
Not sure about work, it can be very stressful, I manager a large retail store and the combination of stress from work and the cancer is a lot of stress for me. It's affecting my sleep and home life. I am lucky to get 3 or 4 hours of sleep at night.
My concentration at work is terrible and the stress has made it so I have trouble remembering for 2 or 3 seconds, I will get up to go talk to someone and forget what I was going to do before I get out the door. Just not sure if I should take leave for a while and concentrate on the cancer. Also not having any idea how I am going to react to the treatment and how that is going to affect work is a concern.
enough whining, thanks everyone for the positive comments!
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Hang in there Ron.
It is very stressful. I was also losing sleep... Just became a first-time grandfather 2 months before kidney cancer was confirmed.
My kidney cancer was found by 'accident'. I went in for lung CT scan. Good news is lungs look good, but they found something in my right kidney.
Went on for kidney scan to verify the mass.
Biopsy confirmed it was kidney cancer.
I had no symptoms.
Surgery on 12/12/24 to remove 10% of right kidney. So far so good.
Plan is to get MRI every 3 months this year and twice next year.
This too shall pass!