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Hello everyone,. I'm a 38 yr old female. I was diagnosed with ain2 from a suspected "polyp" found on colonoscopy last Oct 2025 after suffering pain and bleeding for a longtime. Long story short it was taking forever to get seen on the nhs so I paid...
I’m 7 months post treatment complete response to treatment & follow up examination all good however had slight split from form stool 3 weeks ago that has healed but now jarred myself down a step & have got achey feeling lower back and sometimes in anal...
Hello everybody, my mum has just recently been diagnosed with anal cancer following a colonoscopy she had back in early May 2026. my mum has also had CT and MRI scans along with a pet scan which showed up other areas of concern. Although my mum has...
Hi, Haven’t posted for a while. It’s my wife that had AC and was treated from January 2025. Preceding treatment she had a colostomy. This proved to be an absolute necessity considering the size of the tumour. Responded well apparently, but they are...
I recently was told I have squamous cancer cells found in a polyps removed in April . I was taken off the 28 day pathway as the doctor didn’t think it looked suspicious but it is cancer . I am concerned that two months have gone by already .Following...
I know is a small price to pay but today been thinking about the potential of losing hair on my head guess it’s just another down day between now and my treatment start As I have fine hair I’m starting to feel bothered about losing my scalp hair has...
Hi all, I’m 5 weeks post treatment and I’m having real issues with urgency (poos). I’m worried this is going to be a permanent problem and worried about how I’m going to get out and about and live a normal life. I literally have a few seconds to get...
I’ve recently learnt that despite having a cancerous polyp removed from my bowel in 2024 and having a temporary ileostomy that I now have a 2nd cancerous polyp that has been removed but is in the same area as the previous one so Dr believes it would be...
Three weeks of treatment completed tomorrow, saw nurse today and she said platelets and white blood cells were low, anybody else had this?
I'm three weeks completed 28 days of chemoradiation - got through it- and I have my oncology nurse first follow up next week, but my question is surrounding a growth on my upper arm. Its been there for probably nearly 10years and I have been told in the...
