Hi everyone. As some on here already know, my wife had her surgeries for her bowel and liver cancers in March. She hasn't had the best of experiences and isn't really coping at all. Anyway, we went up to see the stoma nurse on Thursday and she said...
So, was at the hospital with Jay today for his follow up appointment with his surgeon who he didn't see but one of her registrars. He's been fine while on this treatment (Capox) but now I'm starting to worry again because they took blood from him today...
So I'm halfway through 3 to do then a scan think I've coped much better this time, I've had nausea for a few days and a sore mouth. My bloods were very good they said CEA 10 from 10.4 so a little bit of movement my ALT is 46 down from 72 so I think...
I went back to see my medical team today to receive my histology results, following the removal of my rectal tumour and the anterior resection under robotic surgery which I underwent 10 days ago. My recovery after robotics has been incredible. My histology...
Hello, I’ve been on this site for some time. I have for months been worrying about a bit I read on a report about peritoneal. I was called in and told by my oncologist don’t worry about it. My GP , CNS didn’t understand what I was talking about when I...
Next week my husband has to make the decision whether to have the traditional ten week wait for surgery, following his five weeks chemo radiotherapy. ( Rectal cancer T4N2M0) Or to go straight onto 3 months Capox - which the oncologist explained has a...
Hello, I hope everyone is doing ok. i wonder if anyone can offer any advice. I have just finished my 3rd cycle of capox and over the past few days the palms of my hands and soles of my feet have become red and increasingly sore. I have read this might...
Hi Everyone, I wasn't too happy about turning 60 this year but I'm so glad I did as I was sent the bowel screening kit and well you know what the outcome of that was or I wouldn't be posting on here. The only downside is my surgery is on 19th September...
Had stage 3 bowel cancer and have had part of bowel removed with the tumour and over 45 lymph nodes and a good surrounding area. Which were all clear. Tumour was over 4 cm so been offered adjuvant chemotherapy but it for 6 month and been asked for my...
The BCUK site has updated their booklet about ‘Your Operation’ so thought I’d pop a copy on here bowelcancerorguk.s3.amazonaws.com/.../YourOperation_BowelCancerUK.pdf
