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My question is underwear. I have been wearing panties for incontinence because of bleeding. Once I start treatment, without any test results, he says chemoradiation. I am trying to figure out what sort of underpants to wear once treatment begins. I am...
Hi everyone Hope you are keeping well. would anyone know of something that actually works on broken skin in the private area? I have not even started treatment yet and the pain I’m in when walking due to broken is is leaving me house bound and not...
Hi all I have question for you hoping that someone has had this experience during treatment. Basically my platelets have clumped on two occasions and tve reading they for showed that thry have dropped to under a 100 showing that i have thrombocytopenia...
Hi again everyone, I'm just passed the halfway point in treatment: 28 radiation sessions; Mitomycin and 5FU during week 1 and beginning of 5). Yesterday, I noticed an unusual amount of hair coming out when I washed my scalped. I knew there might be...
Hello lovely people I am now 3 and a bit weeks post treatment and I think things are generally going well. I've got my energy back and am managing to do most things as I was before. Healing has gone well generally except the anal sphincter. Everytime...
As I was stage IV at diagnosis with metastasis to the lungs , my treatment was over quite a long period and the last active treatment was March 22 when I had two lung ablations. The specialist hospital I am under has been amazing, with regular MRI (until...
65yo female Diagnosis Squamous Cell Anal Carcinoma 7/24 (cancerversary is tomorrow!) Stage 2b Nigro protocol chemoradiation ended 10/24 Restaging PET 4/25 shows mets to liver Liver resection 5/25 ctDNA test 7/25 (waiting for results) New lesion...
Well today im at tge end of week two and apart from nausea which is not ok, everything has been fine. My tumour has shrunk dramatically which has shocked me at how quickly the treatment is working its magic xx
I'm finishing up 3 weeks of treatment, with 3 to go (6 weeks total). My treatment involves two four day chemo infusions (mitomycin and 5-FU) at week 1 and again at week 4; and 30 radiation sessions. I've started to have mild skin irritation, I'm using...
Finished treatment in March and have had ongoing bowel incontinence. I saw my oncologist last week who advised I am now in remission however my symptoms suggest the radiotherapy may have caused my symptoms and have I considered a stoma ? Has anyone else...
