My husband has just started his fourth cycle of CAPOX (oxaliplatin and capecitabine), having been diagnosed with Stage 3 bowel cancer in March. He had very low tumor markers when he started the chemotherapy in early May -- i.e. CEA and CEA 19-9 that are...
So only six months after my LAR surgery and an all clear my cancer is back and has spread to my uterus. I am devastated. Thought my life was back on track. Had my stoma reversed in May and things seemed manageable - not ideal but manageable. Turns out...
Hi I was diagnosed with a T4 rectal cancer in October 24. I had a colostomy formed and 28 sessions of chemoradiotherapy and then 4 cycles of capox chemotherapy which finished in April with the aim to shrink the tumour before APR surgery. My scans have...
Hi all, Just wondering if anyone is on here who had chemo & radiotherapy & Capox chemo before surgery with rectal cancer. OH completed 5 weeks of daily radiotherapy along with capecitabine in Jan/feb 25 then 12 weeks of oxaliplatin infusion & capecitabine...
My husband was diagnosed with locally advanced rectal cancer just over a year ago. Since then he has had chemoradiotherapy and chemotherapy for 6 months followed by major surgery to remove rectum, prostate and bladder. Throughout that whole process we...
Hello, I’m in the search of anyone who may have experienced the same. I have had bright red bleeding intermittently after stools maybe ever 2:/3 months since having my second daughter 15m after my first. I had a negative qFIT in 2023 and another sept...
I have just been diagnosed at age 47 with right side colon cancer. I am due to have surgery on 4th July. I’m so scared about everything at the moment and worried about the operation and recovery and then if I will need chemo afterwards.
Hi all, As some of you may know from my other thread, I now have my ileostomy reversal booked in for 9th March – eeeek! Although I’m keen to have a reversal I’m quite apprehensive now I’ve got a date. I’ve being doing the exercises recommended to...
Hi, I started these drugs with an infusion of Cetuximab on Friday pm and had first dose of Encorafinib Saturday am. By mid Saturday afternoon I had the worst headache (and I used to get migraines) ever, which persisted all through Sunday until about an...
I've had CT scan found 3 enlarged lymph nodes and inflammation of small bowel had fit test positive results..does this mean I have gastric/stomach/small bowel cancer ? I originally went to AnE with upper back pains,spasms, cramps and pain around my right...
