Hi
im new here to all this, even just making an account on here doesn’t feel real.
i am newly diagnosed, around 2 weeks ago with T2N1M0 anal cancer, i am 40 years old.
i am going for my planning radiotherapy scan today so they can mark me up, hopefully starting my combination of 28 days of oral chemo and radiation therapy on 1st July.
I have to be fair and give credit where it’s due, the trust who found my cancer and who are looking after me have been so swift and good I’m very impressed.
now the hard part…
I am just about coming to terms with this and hopefully that I do my treatment and this will be it but so worried about the burns and all the stuff I’ve read.
all of your threads have been so helpful and I’m prepared as much as I can be I think… thanks to you all 
I am also a nurse and work with cancer patients and chemo, I ended up sitting two chairs away from one of my patients recently at an appointment which just put things into perspective for me.
( he didn’t see me thankfully) but where is the line of confidentiality for things like this… in the same treatment areas. It’s very difficult.
anyway I am at the start of my journey and I feel everyone else is older than me, am I in a minority of younger patients?
