Bowel resection and chemotherapy

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Hi all, I'm tee. I hope you are all doing ok . I was diagnosed with a cancerous sigmoid tumour on the 23rd of July and had it removed via robotic surgery on the 8th of August, from the 9 glands that were harvested 3 contained cancerous cells , I'm due to start folfox in the next couple of weeks I'm terrible frightened and anxious just reaching out to see if anyone else who is on or had this treatment would mind sharing their experience . Thank you

Net77 19 hours ago

Hi Tee.

A very warm welcome to the board but sorry you find yourself here. Great to hear you've had the tumour removed and it's in the bin.

I think the idea of chemo is often worse than it actually is. I've linked to a thread a few years ago where we are talking about FolFox. You might want to have a read of that thread rather than me repeating all that was said back then.

https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer_types/bowel-colon-rectum-cancer-forum/f/diagnosis/221060/bowel-cancer-diagnosis?pifragment-16476=2#pifragment-16476=1

In 2021 I was prescribed 6 rounds of FolFox in 2 weekly cycles and completed 5 (there were other issues so I was advised by oncologist to stop after 5). It was difficult at times but there is light at the end of the tunnel and here I am 4 1/2 years later with NED (no evidence of disease).

Once you've had a read of the above please come back with any questions or just to have a moan.

Let us know how you get on.

Very best wishes

Net77 x

Teejohn79906e 18 hours ago in reply to Net77

Thank you Net77