Hi any tips on managing after this surgery would be really helpful. I read a pregnancy pillow is a must I presume that’s because being on your back at first is sore? any tips very much welcomed
I have some positive news with my 2 1/2 year journey after being dignosed with rectal cancer. My journey has involved 5 weeks chemoradiotherapy in October 2023 to try to shrink the tumour 3 visits to Clatterbridge for Papillon treatment ( had good...
Hello my husband has completed 25 radiotherapy and chemo tablets this summer then has been having further tests unfortunately cancer is still present, so he’s being referred to the clatterbridge centre in Liverpool to see if he’s eligible for internal...
Hello there, Last Wednesday I went to get 2 polyps removed, one 4 mm in my colon and a 30mm in my lower rectum. They removed the 4mm but I was told that the 30mm is cancerous so decided to leave it. They had done previous biopsies of this that came back...
My dad was told in November he has bowel cancer he had a blockage on his bowel which was at 90% so he had to get a stent put in his bowel they said it looked like it had spread to his lungs and it was confirmed yesterday it has went to his lungs and it...
I have the pump attached to picc after sitting for chemo on Day 1 and then it's removed late on Day 3. Today is Day 3. I notice the balloon doesn't seem to have shrunk at all. The top of the teat is still on level 4. I know it's non-linear but I think...
My husband had major bowel surgery and part pelvic exenteration last October. All cancer was removed but there were 15/28 lymph nodes that were cancerous and it was in blood vessels. He just had his first surveillance scan in October and they found...
Hi everyone I’m on chemo number 2 out of 6 for bowel cancer with liver mets (currently inoperable). Last treatment in January. Just wondered if anyone has been on a similar journey and what happened next for them after their initial treatment? Xx
Diagnosed in April 2025 with 2 synchronous primary cancers: Non hodgkin Lymphoma Bowel cancer at hepatic flexure Lymphoma is now in remission after 6 cycles of Pola-r-chp chemotherapy/immunotherapy. I feel amazingly lucky; was stage 4B, presenting...
Greetings all, I will be starting a course of immunotherapy shortly to try and shrink my locally advanced tumour in the transverse colon. Can I ask anyone else who has had this approach how they fared with side effects please? As usual the list of them...
