My mum finished 5 weeks of radiotherapy and chemo four months ago and js still suffering. We all feel the radiotherapy has done such irreparable damage to her body. She is still so sore in her anal region, it's painful to pass stools and she has jelly...
How are you finding it, is it as it was, can you get hard.... ? I'm sure my partner doesn't really understand but she does know the big c stuff.... Am I errrrrr
I've been doing loads of research before my MDT meet on a treatment plan, and my brother (Stage 4 Prostate) told me to look up Brachytherapy as it preserves a lot of surrounding tissue and lessens internal organ damage. If you have had it, can you give...
Really feeling on edge today with treatment looming over me from tomorrow. Had second CT yesterday and managed not to cry whilst in there this time, but broke down once I left the room. The weight of this new reality just feels so overwhelming right now...
So after much lurking during my diagnosis, I've thrown together a list of the things I bought to prepare for my chemotherapy and radiotherapy. This was a mix of suggestions from this forum, medical suggestions from Drs and Nurses and recommendations from...
Hi All, I am just wondering what underwear you used during radiotherapy? I had 28 sessions of radiation, towards the end the only underwear that felt comfortable was my partners boxer shorts. I couldn't bare anything on my groin region, due to the...
Hi everyone, I got my diagnosis of anal cancer on Tuesday and like everyone else head is spinning. Having a PET scan in the next week so sizing and treatment plan will go from there I guess. They have said treatable and MRI and CT OK apart from cyst...
Hi, I'm finishing Week 5 of treatment, which is hard to believe, because those days before treatment, when everything seemed so uncertain and frightening, still feel like yesterday. But treatment really does fly by, and it's hard to believe that after...
Hi all, I finally have my surgery tomorrow, it’s been a long 2 weeks and I have not being doing too well mentally. I had another telephone consultation with my Dr just to go over a few things and he said it will be quite a long surgery as he will need...
Hi I have been given my treatment for anal cancer on Wednesday I have my radiotherapy treatment plan when they will permanent marker pen me where I will be [zapped] .I start my first treatment on Monday 24th March having 28 days radiotherapy mon -Fri...
