Hi, my mum was diagnosed with Bowel Cancer with liver mets last March, she had capox treatment which showed a great response and left only one small lesion. She underwent micro ablation this Jan and the results showed there had been a complete response...
Anyone had facial swelling on cetuximab and folfiri ? Had chemo on Thursday and since Sunday have swelling along jaw line, has reduced today but wondering if it is something to worry about? I have lung mets in both lungs. Just completed 3rd cycle of chemo...
When I started my Capectibine tablets chemo last February, my tumour marker was 2. (I have my chemo 2 weeks on 1 week off.) In March it went up to 3 then 4 and in April rose to 5. A CT scan showed nothing new. In May it dropped to 4, and in early June...
Hello there I've to make a decision on treatment by 17 July when I will be 13 weeks post operation and the thought of Oxaliplatin petrifies me. I am immune compromised as I have low neutrophils between 1.01 and 1.61 due to lifelong medication I have...
Hi I have just been diagnosed with colon cancer and have been offered the FOXTROT 3 trial. I just don't know what to do Has anyone got any advicebor experience that they would share. I'm terrified
Hi fellow forum followers, I finished 12 rounds of Folfiri (very lucky as had minimal side effects) on 16th May but couldn't get a CT scan until 13 June. I didn't give this too much thought, which is my default position, until my results, which showed...
Hello - I am new to this forum so I will start by saying what happened to me. I had no real symptoms of bowel cancer until two days before emergency surgery. I didn’t have my regular morning poo for two days and then developed awful stomach cramps and...
Well round 2 of Oxaliplatin and capecitabine starts today. Due to side effects last round, I'm having 75% reduction. Hopefully this is better. Don't want anymore hospital stays thanks. Really messed me up and my regime. #kickingtinatumour Hope you...
Hello everyone, I have rectal cancer & am having treatment oxiplatin intravenously & Capecitabine tablets. I had been struggling with blockages & ended up in hospital twice the second time I had an emergency temporary Ileostomy stoma with a pouch...
What a first month of treatment. Started on Oxaliplatin and capecitabine at the beginning of June. Infusion was fine. The side effects were worse than I thought. The neuropathy was something else, the tiredness, diarrhoea, queasy, pain. Used most of the...
