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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 everyone. My little update: I completed my 28 days treatment today! The advice and support here ahead of treatment and during treatment has helped keep me going. Lots of the things I worried about didn't become issues, like getting to and from...
Hi all again, update- I had my CT MRI and petscan, which thankfully showed no spread. I’ve had my oncology appointment and next step is a further surgery to remove small tumour what is left then go from there. I felt better because it appears early onset...
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...
Hi I’m new to all this and would just like to say hi im 6 months post treatment
5:25am [started to type] Been up all night Head in a spin Hardly surpising since I have a lot to be thinking about regards my treatment plan for my T2 anal cancer following my initial appointment with my oncologist on Friday afternoon. [39 hours ago...
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...
I’ve had an appointment with my Oncologist and a planning scan was booked for this Friday but since then it’s been changed to an Oncology clinical meeting at a different time, why would that happen, I had blood tests done the other day could something...
