Having a stoma op
Hi I’m recently diagnosed with Stage 4 High Grade Metastatic Goblet Cell Adenocarcinoma of the Appendix. This is an extremely rare cancer for which the optimum treatment is debulking surgery together with HIPEC. Adjuvant Chemotherapy is the same as that...
Has anyone had blood tested for Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) ? It would be great to learn about all experiences, including if part of a trial or as surveillance if no increase in CEA was evident
Good afternoon, Just a quick update. So we went to the hospital today for my husbands CT scan tattoos and treatment plan. He starts Radiotherapy on 11th July for 5 and half weeks, during which he will be taking chemotherapy tablets every day. ...
Good evening folks, This morning I received some upsetting news, that my resection planned for Thursday has been cancelled. All I have been told is that my consultant will not be in hospital this week, but may be back next Monday. As you can imagine...
I have stage 4 goblet cell carcinoma of the appendix, spread to ovaries and peritoneum. My Oncologist has given me the choice between Irinotecan with 5FU and folinic acid or CAPOX. Apparently they are equally effective. I was initially leaning towards...
Hi, My husband has stage 4 bowel cancer and is currently in Cetuximab. It was in combination with chemo which they stopped after 6 months but when his markers shot up they got him back in Cetuximab. His skin has reacted really badly and not calmed down...
Sorry this is not the nicest subject but looking for some advice. Hubby has bowel cancer, not had any treatment due to other health problems. He is terrified of ‘getting blocked’ as he puts it. He takes laxido most days even when he is going regularly...
Still waiting to see oncologist seems it be another 3 weeks away . Im in so much pain and probably won't get started treatment until September now. Spent a week.in hospital trying to get pain relief but they were more concerned about making me empty...
Hello All, My aunt a few months ago had one of those NHS fit tests and an anomaly was detected and following a colonoscopy, they removed 8 polyps which were all benign; there was a 9th one which was 20 mm and could not be removed via colonoscopy and...
