Evening Day four of radiotherapy completed and feeling a little less discomfort when sitting. Travelling to the hospital takes 90 minutes each way, so I am going to enjoy this honeymoon period. Query about vitamins, I stopped taking mine before...
Hey guys... So on Wednesday I got to mark the end of treatment by ringing that bell. It felt such relief and such an emotional day. I was lucky enough to have my little entourage with me and madly, the Princess Royal showed up too! Nice of her to make...
Hi, I start my treatment next Monday. Bit nervous now but keen to get started as tired of dealing with this daily as is. My IV chemo appointment is 8.40am and my first radiotherapy is 15.30pm. At my planning CT I understood one would follow after...
Good day , has anybody had something show in tailbone/sacrum before the primary tumour is found or shows itself in the anus? I am not yet diagnosed. I experience slight rectal spotting on toilet paper, have thinner/flatter stools no blood visible in...
I received the results of my 6 month post treatment PET scan and the tumours have grown. There’s also spread to my bladder and womb nodes. I have started immunotherapy ( Retifanlimab) and double chemo Carboplatin and paclitaxel today. Has anyone else...
Hi everyone. I haven’t been very active on here after my T1N0M0 diagnosis in June 2024 but I’ve been an avid reader. Quite frankly I felt a fraud as I had an excision in May 2024 and then no further treatment. I went down a huge rabbit hole from diagnosis...
Little nervous about the unknown, but going to chanel all my energy into treatment. My cancer is squamous and it has travelled upwards to my rectum. They have now staged it at T3cMRF+ N1M0. Sadly I now have lymph node involvement. I will be having...
Hi everyone, so I’m 7 days in from my 28 day radiotherapy, chemo treatment. I have not sat down for a good few weeks Nothing different to what I was lead to expect. starting to feel a little more with it mentally. Maggies in Manchester now run a...
Hi, I'm 17 months on from the standard chemo-radiotherapy treatment for anal canal cancer, T1N0M0. My only symptom originally was sudden bleeding once every few months and a colonoscopy found a type 11a_c polyp (depressed lesion which is rare and more...
Diagnosed stage2b anal cancer 7/24, then Nigro protocol. Thankful it wasn't that bad, saw so many people suffering from cancer in radiation/oncology labs. No residual side effects besides fatigue. F/U cancer screening PET 4/25 revealed one 4cm met to...
