My husband started folfox chemo but had a very bad side effect that affected his brain for about 8 hours so chemo has been stopped. Our only hope is major surgery as he has complex bowel cancer with satellite tumours in the lymph nodes. the surgeon...
Hi everyone, I hope you’re all doing okay. I posted a couple of weeks ago, saying high-grade dysplasia had been found in my bowel and that surgery might be necessary. I was subsequently told that actually cancer cells had been found. Two days ago I had...
Hi, i’d be interested in people’s experience with either, these are the two options available to me. If the tamis doesn’t get it all then i’d probably be due for the resection, on the other hand tamis could be fine. Tamis seems the easier option...
Hi, my mum has bowel cancer with liver mets. She has started Capox and was due to have her 3rd cycle today. The hospital have called to cancel it as they said the LFTs are raised, they did say before the last cycle that they were raised but were happy...
Hi, a quick summary… I was diagnosed with upper rectal cancer Nov 23, temporary ileostomy Nov 23, 5 day radiotherapy Jan 24, Folfox chemo Jan - March 24, op to remove the tumour and bowel resection June 24. I still have the stoma and I’m hoping for a...
Hi I’m new my husband has just been diagnosed with bowel cancer liver mets and lung mets treatment plan is just chemotherapy but having a Consultant review Wednesday he’s 53 ( not the consultant ) I’m a nurse so I think I know what’s ahead of us it’s...
Hello everyone, so after having my partial nephrectomy I had my meeting with the collorectal surgeon. He said NO CANCER! just the best xmas pressie. I still have to have a TEMS or TAMIS on 08/01/24 to remove the residual polyp which has low and high grade...
Hi everyone, just looking for some advice. I was diagnosed with Adenocarcinoma of Rectum on 9/4/24 with T3A N0 MO. My treatment is neoadjuvant chemoradiation for 5 weeks followed by ELAP resection. My chemoradiation was completed on 24/06/24. I have...
My oncologist said at the start of my chemo journey six rounds would be good twelve rounds would be great if I could handle it. I’ve just done six rounds - interested in understanding how many rounds others have had and if they changed the number of rounds...
Hi all I was diagnosed last October with a tumor in my sigmoid colon to cut a long story short I was very fortunate it was caught early and successfully removed in November. However on receiving the results after surgery I was told no lymph nodes were...
