Hi everyone, really glad I joined this friendly forum, my five and half weeks daily chemoradiotherapy for a T3N0M0 starts a week on Monday. I have picked up so much useful and reassuring information here, thank you all for sharing. I have a very active...
Hi everyone, I’ve joined this forum as I thought it would help me learn about real life experiences that will support my mum. She found out last week that a polyp that was removed was precancerous on the inside but the outside had started to turn...
Hi all after several months of going back and forth to GP I have been diagnosed with anal cancer. Hopefully next week I will see the consultant to start my treatment plan. Until then I am still under my GP. I have been telling them since October of...
Does anyone have any bleeding or symptoms after sex? I am 2 years post treatment. Not been sexually active until recently.
Hi, So I went for an EUA on Wednesday which was brought forward as experiencing new symptoms. where the primary tumour was it looks as well as it can do after treatment however, as I had lymph node involvement they have been keeping an eye on what...
Hi just competed 3 weeks treatment for AC so half way there. Not been as bad as I first imagined but I've now started with an itch. It's driving me mad and waking me up at night several times. Has anyone got tips on how to stop this please?
Hello fellow travellers Sorry not to have posted recently, but this is the first time I've felt well enough to even think about getting my thoughts into some sort of order. Well, treatment got completed amidst a whirl of exhaustion. It was like being...
My oncologist has recommended that I have Carboplatin and Paclitaxel for my liver metastasis. She has said that for anal cancer the evidence is that it is most effective if given on a 28 day cycle of: Day 1 - Carboplatin and paclitaxel; Day 8 just paclitaxel;...
Hi - I have my first radiotherapy session tomorrow after my capecitabine orally and then my IV chemo mitomycin. I was meant to have a pre radiotherapy telephone appointment today but they called me after 5pm when I was in the car and said they would...
Hi has anyone had Cisplatin and 5 Fu chemotherapy ? I have had one cycle so far and wondered if anyone else has experienced it .Also has anyone had Nivolumab immunotherapy for treatment? I am interested in the immunotherapy if the chemo isn't successful...
