anal cancer

Hi there,

I'd love to talk with you. My name is Scott. First, I am sorry to hear about your diagnosis. You are right it is a rare cancer. I, too, was diagnosed with anal cancer last  December 22. I started treatment which consisted of radiation (28 sessions) and 2 rounds of chemotherapy on January 12. I finished treatment in April; I had several setbacks during the treatment which meant I had to take breaks from radiation and chemotherapy. I should also say that I also have AIDS which made the entire treatment process obviously make much difficult.

This is just a quick, short snapshot of my story for you to decide if I may be of any help to you. I have to tell you I admire your courage to post about your diagnosis, in my opinion, it takes bravery to announce your diagnosis. My experience has shown me it helps beyond measure for me to be honest and open about what I am going through. All of my vulnerabilities, my weaknesses, my fears, my thoughts, I have expressed and even blogged about. I have found it, and still do, incredibly cathartic. There are times however that I feel like perhaps I've overshared or was too vulnerable; having said that I'd rather be too vulnerable than not share at all. Having this site, which I just recently found, has been incredibly helpful, I don't feel so alone anymore. It helps to know that there are other people possibly having some of the same issues as I am.

Enough about me. I hope this helps. I'm here if you would like to talk.

-Scott

Morning Scott and welcome to the group.

I've just looked back at this thread as it didn't look familiar, and the other posts appear to be at least 8 years old, so I'm not sure you'll get a reply. 

You can send friend requests to members if you click on their avatars, then you can have conversations there privately.

Best wishes

Mary

Hi just found this forum. I have anal cancer and saw that you also had it. How are you doing now?

Hi ,

Firstly welcome to the Macmillan online community although I’m so sorry that you’ve had the need to find us.

Many of the posts on this thread are quite old so I’m not sure you’ll get a response here as many people once they’re through their recovery following a cancer diagnosis & treatment begin a new in an attempt to leave their cancer journey behind them. 

There’s many of us here though that are all at different points in our cancer journeys, personally I’m a little over 3 years post treatment with no evidence of disease (NED) & doing well, if you click on my username you can read a little more about me there. 

If you go onto the anal cancer forum main page & click on ‘new here, say hello’ at the top of the page if you’d like you can introduce yourself there. 

Have you begun treatment or have you just been diagnosed? It’s a really difficult, scary time receiving a cancer diagnosis but there’s many of us here that are testament to the success of this treatment. 

Nicola