Hi all My wife finished five and a half weeks of radiotherapy and chemotherapy for rectal cancer (skin cancer) last Wednesday. She was warned that in the two to three months afterwards her rectal pain would get worse before it got better and it sure...
Hi , I had my first chemo yesterday, and was wondering if any one else experienced once home , and after taking the chemo pills, during the night I had a weird sensation like a bolt of lightning from the top of my head which travelled down my body , then...
Hi, This my first time on this forum, so apologies for any mistakes in my post. I'm 48 year old and was diagnosed with bowel cancer just under two month ago, after a colonoscopy. They found a growth in my lower bowel that was cancerous, i was...
Does anyone else have tingling hands and feet 3 months after finishing chemo? The tingling was only very slight whilst on treatment
Hello friends, my husband has advanced rectal cancer with the tumour sitting in his pelvis and wrapped around the vessels and nerves in his groin, leading to sciatica, a swollen foot and general problems with that leg. He's had a terminal diagnosis but...
Hi All I have now completed 5 weeks of chemoradiotherapy, and it wasn't too bad, to be honest. At times, during the early days, I actually felt better than I had for ages. However, I am now 4 days post treatment and am really suffering with urethral...
I have been on target therapy for 3 session but just had a short break before more treatment. I also.have a stoma. I am.so.low and feel.dreadful.every day. Suffering terribly with nausea so now I.eat very.little which worries me. I feel.so.unwell.I don...
Had a meeting with my oncologist yesterday and left feeling really annoyed basically I am re challenge folfori was originally on it last year had excellent results, so after failed other treatments he put me back on it last week so I mentioned having...
Can i just ask if anyone has had the numbness on lips and tongue due to the ox chemo and if there's anything I can do to stop it ?
Has anyone made a decision not to have the full amount of chemo cycles that were originally planned? I have had radiotherapy with capecitabine for 5 weeks then a break of 4 weeks and started Capox infusions with tablets for two weeks. I have neuropathy...
