Hi all, I had a response from Mammabear, thank you Mammabear. Looking for any further instances of people in my position. 6 weeks after sigmoid resection, stage 3 cancer removed but residual was found in 1 of the 4 nodes removed. I am DPD deficient...
Hi, I was diagnosed with stage 2 bowel cancer in November 2022. Although not metastasised the consultant needed it to shrink before possibly operating on it. I was given Keytruda immunotherapy treatment and I have had now 4 cycles of it. I was just wondering...
My 90 year old mother has an illeostamy, no other treatment. stage4 . She feels abandoned as she wants to know how fast it’s growing. There’s very little point but she’s obsessed with wanting a CT scan. She’s very depressed. I’ve been told by palliative...
I had my PICC line put in 2 weeks ago and where it goes into the vein is very tender. Is this normal and will it get better? I had it flushed today and they checked it, were quite dismissive of me saying it was sore I felt so didn't ask any more . It...
Hi everybody, Just wondered if anybody could possibly help me.... I have been reading up on notes and have come across something I don't think I have read before. My husbands notes say he is CRM positive now although I have looked up the CRM part...
My tests are now all complete and I have a treatment plan. It is so true what other people have said on here that you feel a bit better when you know exactly what you’ve got and what’s happening. The waiting is just tortuous. I have quite a large very...
Good afternoon, My husband who was diagnosed with bowel cancer just over two years ago is on this regime permanently, until it stops working or he become too toxic. He has now been on this treatment since last November and they are at full dosage...
I've had my very first iv of Oxaliplatin and by the end the vein was so painful. And any tissue or tendons moving near by would also hurt. But I was wondering if anyone had experienced a feeling like really bad sunburn where the arm and wrist if touched...
LAR Surgery in 2014 after chemoradiotherapy removed the tumour and after 9 yrs it has returned to sweep up most organs in right pelvic area. After refitting an illiostomy due to incontinence a large tumour was eventually located. I have been hospitalised...
Hi I had chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy in 2021 This was for aggressive locally advanced prostate cancer Gleason 9 T3b N1 M0 This had spread to the lymph nodes in my pelvis. I had a colonoscopy in May which found the two polyps and eight...
