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I've not been on here for a while. Just curious, what timescales people have been waiting for a double loop ileostomy reversal? I had the seal test done in March and didn't get my results until May (6 month check in post surgery). I was added on...
Hi all we are two days away from husbands planned operation for a liver resection for liver metastasis. he health with his APR surgery quite well and “Ken butt” but I’m so nervous that again only 6 months later he’s having to have major surgery again...
Hi my husband has stage 4 colorectal cancer with metases to liver and lungs. He wants to go to the Arcadia clinic in Germany for treatment. Has anyone been there? Can you share your experience. Did it work?
Hi All, new here and not sure what to say but wondering if others have a similar feeling. I was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer in July and have started palliative chemo to keep it at bay. I'm 41 have two young children, a wife and close family...
Hi, new here - diagnosed with a very low rectal cancer on August 19th, due to start chemoradiotherapy next week, but I'm really struggling with pain and not really getting anywhere when I ask anyone aboutbout it. From what I can work out it is tenasmus...
Hello, I posted recently about my partner, he’s been diagnosed with stage 4 rectal cancer with spread to liver and lungs to an extent that they are saying they can’t operate and are treating to control, not to cure. He is due to start chemo therapy...
I am due to start immunotherapy in the next couple of weeks to shrink my tumour before surgery. I am very worried as I have heard some bad reports about this treatment. Has anyone had this that can reassure me. Thank you
Hi all- I was diagnosed with colorectal cancer 2 years ago, had surgery, an ileostomy and chemo. Seemed to go ok, finished chemo and had the ileostomy reversed in January this year. Then, first routine check (colonoscopy) revealed another tumour in the...
A bit of background first: I was diagnosed in September 2021 following a positive FIT test and colonoscopy. Followed by a CT scan in October 2021, which showed no spread. Surgery followed on 12 November that year (Lower Anterior Resection with loop...
Hello everyone. I hope everyone is doing well, best they can be during their journeys so far. I am completely new to this forum, and to be honest, never in a million dreams imagined to be writing this. However, here we are. I am quite unfamiliar to the...
