My mom

Hi MattieC Welcome to the forum although I'm sorry about your mums diagnosis. Chemoradiation is the standard treatment for ac and as a general rule it is highly successful. I think everyone on here has either been through it or going through it. I'm just over 2 years post treatment and cancer free. The treatment can be tough but while it wasn't a walk in the park it wasn't as bad as I expected. You only go through it once as far as I know but like I say it's highly successful. If it happens to not work they tend to do surgery but its quite drastic surgery and I stress again the chemoradiation is highly successful. With regards to side affects we all react and cope differently. Any side affects your mum may get won't come straight away they normally come about half way through. The main ones are sore skin which the hospital will give her creams for and painful poos which in my case was after treatment had finished. She may have some nausea from the chemo part of the treatment and feel fatigued. The most important thing is to keep her treating team informed of anything and they will provide pain relief, creams etc. After treatment they will scan at 3 months and then 6, it is the 6 month scan that is important as the treatment continues to work after you stop having it. If you have any questions just ask, everyone here will support you however you need and no questions are out of bounds. Sending hugs to you and your mum. Xx

Thank you so much for that information and I’m so happy to hear you are 2 years post treatment! That gives me a lot of hope and more knowledge than I had. I appreciate your kind words and I will pray you continue your recovery!

Thank you. Did they not tell your mum anything about what the treatment entails? X