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Nan-nan 

So pleased to hear your good news! You must be relieved!  I have a friend who has just had radiotherapy and chemo for colon cancer with really good results so you will get through this!

When does the treatment start?

I found it really useful just to focus on each day / step at a time and Christmas will be extra special!

Good luck and let us know how it goes!

Great to hear your liver is clear .

Now you have a firm plan to get this resolved .

Have a good weekend ,

take care ,

Court 

Thank-you Jacquiw,my treatment starts on 11/11 what a date, i have just been reading through some leaflets i was give at hospital, didnt realise i was also going to be taking a Chemotherapy drug aswell ,i find it hard  sometimes to take in what im told, but whatever i am told to do or take i will follow to the letter, as i have good friends to remind me, it is great to hear the good news about your friend, i bet you are both relieved too ,and i wish them all the best, and i will focus on day to day, as the advice we get on here is from top people, who have ,or are going through this, and we all stick together, and im looking forward to Christmas ,as i know its going to be special this year,( well hopefully) , hugs to you and your friend x.

Thank-you Court, at least those results put my mind at rest, have a good weekend yourself too, x

Hi . Good news about the liver. I had a similar thing and it had a long name but the nurse assured me that a lot of people have these little cyst/nodule things in their liver from birth and are none the wiser unless they have this sort of scan.

Yes you will have chemo with your radiotherapy as it helps it to work. It is a low dose in tablet form and only taken on radiotherapy days which were mon-Friday in my case. I decided to think of them as vitamin tablets as I tended to associate chemo with needles. I found the tablets made my feet a bit prickly so mention to the nurses if you get any side effects. 

Hope your sessions go well and you can start zapping the tumour

Take care

Karen x

Hi I had my chemotherapy and radiotherapy  in June and just wanted to reassure you about the treatment .they tell you all the side effects that can happen which can happen which can be quite frightening but I was lucky enough to get through with fatigue , very slight nausea  and at the end a sore bottom which they provided me with lotions and potions.  On my first day I was lucky enough to be given tickets to the O2 so I found my self taking my first lot of evening chemo tablets at the O2 annoying a concert a bit bizarre!! I slept though most of the following day after my treatment.  So what I mean to say is you can carry on doing things I was still able to drive , while having treatment.  I did take time off work as my job is a manual job. But kept up exercise and lots of walking. The oncologist will keep a good eye on you and tell them the slightest thing even if you might think it trivial. The radiologists are always there to answer questions and hep too.i was very lucky that none of my symptoms stopped me doing any thing I just had to scale things down a bit. I hope this helps

Lots of love

Peacock62 

Hi Karen ,Thank-you for your reply, my treatment is only Mon to Friday also,and thats a great tip to think of the Chemo tabs as vitamins ,i have been told about side affects ,and will be on the phone to the hospital if i notice anything strange going on, its good to get help and tips from the lovely people on here, i know where to come if i need advice,,,,, have a good weekend, take care x

Hi Peacock, it is daunting to hear the side affects, but if it helps to sort out the dreaded tumour ,that i can handle,even now i feel tired some days ,so at least i know what to expect when treatment starts, i dont drive or work so thats not a problem for me, i live alone so i can rest when needed, im sorry you had a few side effects,but i hope you are well on the way to recovery now, i always read your posts ,and its good to see you back on here,i will remember to write down the questions i need to know answers to, and if i get stuck ,then there is always someone around on here to help out, take care and  have a good weekend x.