Three weeks of treatment completed tomorrow, saw nurse today and she said platelets and white blood cells were low, anybody else had this?
Hello All, I am five weeks post treatment, which I found bearable!!! Skin has healed, if a little pink/darker in spots and all was well until I seem to have developed itchy hive like.spots on the edge of the treatment area! Has anyone else had this? It...
Hello! Recently diagnosed after a colonoscopy found 6mm SCC. Ct scans and MRI, surgery of remaining tissue and biopsy is HSIL . The tumor board has met and they cannot rule out superficial invasion and are suggesting CRT. Im not sure of the timeline...
My hubs has just been told his anal cancer has come back. It’s all so exhausting. He was first diagnosed in 2018 and he had chemo radiotherapy with a complete response. Then it came back in 2022 and he had salvage surgery and a stoma. Now the b*stards...
Has anyone had to have a bolus over skin in groin before radiotherapy on lymph nodes and anal cancer tumour
Started treatment yesterday, Chemo nurse said not to start sickness tablets unless I felt sick. What did everyone else do ? Thank you
Hi everyone. Hope you are doing well in your journey. i finished my CRT mid December. I still have the urgent need for the toilet so I don’t go far from home. I feel more tired now than when I was having the treatment, which I think is weird. I’m eating...
Hi, I first came on in January after my initial diagnosis of anal cancer. I had all my scans done in early February and was about ten days off starting my chemo and radiotherapy when a colorectal surgeon called me into hospital to say he was going...
Hello, for those of you who haven’t come across me before I am posting on behalf of my mother. She just finished treatment on Wednesday (yay!). She’s been struggling with bladder control over the past few weeks and I just wondered whether anyone else...
Hi All Just a little update .... so I went for my results today and after what felt like an eternity, I am semi pleased to say I have achieved a complete response. I should feel elated but I was then hit with ...... the PET scan has shown a tonsil...
