Hi all. Had my APR on Oct 5 - plus colostomy made permanent and given barbie butt. Pain has been manageable but I have an odd question re the graft to create the barbie butt. Why does it feel like it's riding up between my buttocks?! I know it's not ...
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 all, I completed my Folfox treatment 3 months ago. The oxiplatin has left me with mild neuropathy in my fingers, they just feel stiff and numb at the tips, but my feet - it feels like I am walking on rough sand all the time and they feel a bit numb...
Hi all, hope you are all doing well, the best you can do under your circumstances. I posted just over a week ago in relation to my mums diagnosis of a recral tumour. Since then she’s had two further scans including a PET, she is to hear to results tomorrow...
Morning all. On 23rd july I had a CT scan which identified "a subjective 13mm hypodensity on segment 4a of the liver growing from 9mm in november" MRI recommended. Operation was in January T2n0m0 no adjuvant. Date for MRI now received 31st october...
Hello. I was diagnosed with rectal cancer in July and had surgery four weeks ago. I now have a stoma and am going to start three months of chemo next month. I have been offered a choice of treatment, either exclusively intravenously - the Folfox route...
CT scan with contrast six months post rectal cancer removal surgery. After cea marker result of 3.8 non smoker. Previous anterior section. Satisfactory appearances to the colorectal anastomosis. No definite local recurrence. RIGHT iliac fossa defunctioning...
Hi everyone I had an extended right hemi in March 2025 and then 6 months of CAPOX after they did histology as I had 5 out of 33 lymph nodes affected and the tumour was T4a. At the time of diagnosis a cyst was found on my liver but they were not too sure...
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?
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...
