Advice please…Does anyone know what a malignant ulcerative tumor is.. is it cancer and can it be treated? Is it rare? Just read it on the form from the sigmoidoscopy specialist notes I have this . Thank you
Hi Everyone! Well I'm back on here sooner than I thought. After the elation of yesterday being told that James will be starting his treatment shortly i've come back down to earth with a bump. The reality of it happening has really `hit home` with...
So we just got a letter in to tell us that the appointment we booked for James to go to oncology on the 11th August has been cancelled and put back to the following week the 18th August. Now we don't know if his treatment will start on the 12th August...
Hi everyone It’s been ages since I last posted on here. I feel a bit selfish to be honest. Having had bowel cancer successfully removed with surgery just over 2 1/2 years ago, I’ve now been told I have liver cancer. They believe it was there all along...
My husband had liver surgery 9 weeks ago to remove bowel cancer that has spread to his liver he also had it in his lungs. He had had 6 sessions of chemo and responded very positively his tumour in the bowel had almost gone the lung had almost gone and...
Has anyone on this forum had experience of DEBIRI for inoperable liver metastases?
Feeling frustrated and worried can't sleep now .. tumor in rectum low, was told last Wednesday they would know results then told it would be this Wednesday just been called today that waiting for the rubber stamp and it'll be next Wednesday now in the...
Hello all, My mum was diagnosed December 2020 after an emergency operation to remove large colon, February 2021 full chemotherapy with I think cetuximab and irinotecan from what she has told us. CT results were NED end of 2021 so was placed on a very...
Hi all Stuart here I had rectal cancer 6 months ago. Thanks to a great consultant looks like he got all the cancer. 15 days after operation I got a dehiscence (stiches split open ) and after 6 months still not healed That's problem 1 problem 2 ever...
Hello everyone! I'm new on here and finding it really helpful reading through everyone's experiences and supporting one another. My mum (57) has recently been diagnosed with stage 4 small bowel cancer with mets to the liver. This came as a shock...
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