I just want to share with everyone that I have completed my first week - mitomycin c and Fluroucil 5FU given via portable pump on Monday so I went home and attended daily radiotherapy. Pump down yesterday and not due again until week 5. no real issues...
I have completed all my sessions of radiotherapy and apart from two days I have now finished chemo. I could not complete the full dose of Chemo because of a skin reaction on my hands. At the beginning of all this I was convinced I would not experience...
Hi all, I had a large tumour removed last summer, good margins, woohoo! since then I have been happily mozying on with the quarterly HRA’s with biopsies. I have noticed though that I am increasingly getting anxious. They are finding new high grade...
Hi got my 3 month scan results today. I'm not clear lymph nodes have shrunk by millimetres and there's still a lump they don't know if its tumour or scar tissue. They are going to have a meeting probably another scan in 3 months. They talked about surgery...
I’ve been scrolling the latest treatments for anal cancer and came across this trial. Apparently it’s become a standard treatment in Wales? Has anyone heard of it? It’s used instead of chemo/radiation with minimum side effects but I can’t find anything...
Hello. As if it’s not horrendous enough (pain, swelling, chemo, radiation burns) I now have a watery discharge from my bum which stinks of onions. I mean. What fresh torture is this? I’m 3 months post treatment. Review in 10 days. I am fastidious with...
Hi, I received the best phone call yesterday and still trying to take it all in. My oncologist called me to let me know that the remaining tumour in the lymph node is inactive I couldn’t quite believe what I was being told. I see the surgeons on Friday...
Hello! It's my one month anniversary from completing treatment (finished 17 January) and to celebrate we went out out to the comedy club in Reading - for much needed giggles!!! I saw my oncologist on Friday and apart from the uncomfortable finger...
Hi all. I'm 7 months post treatment and have been following this forum for a while but never had the courage to comment.I firstly has a stage 1 which was operated out and then 7 months later reappeared which I noticed through itching and a lump and went...
I saw my oncologist last Monday. Some good and bad news really. So the tumour in my anus has been blasted by the treatment however, the tumour in lymph node remains. It has shrunk somewhat. I didn’t ask by how much as I just wanted to hear both tumours...
