Bowel Cancer

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FormerMember

1 Dec 2010

My Dad is 77 years old and was diagnosed with bowel cancer in sept 2009 he went into hospital to have his operation and came out with a stoma his cancer was stage 3 and in august this year he finished his chemo went back this month for ct scan and now he has a rectal tumour and now he has got to have radiotherapy please can anyone share their experiance of this kind wishes jue2312.

FormerMember over 14 years ago

I had rectal cancer and had my anus and rectum removed. I also had chemo and radiotherapy. I was classified stage 1 and so I have got a clean bill of health as much as the profession will say - after my CT scan I got a letter to say that "there was no convincing evidence that the cancer had returned." Satge 3 is not the worst and I am sure they will do their best to contain it in the lymph nodes. I found radiotherapy a bind - every day for five weeks with an hour's travel each day but got through it OK. The only thing is use plenty of the cream that they give you - in the last week I discovered radiation burns and it was absolute agony. Being a roughy toughy male I told them I was using the cream when they asked me but I wasn't and it was very unpleasant.

Good luck

Keep smiling

love

Drew

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FormerMember over 14 years ago

Thanks Drew your post is a very much appreciated ..

Good luck and takecare love Julie. x
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