Surgery

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Hi,

My husband had an MRI scan and sigmoidoscopy. The doctors looked at the MRI in their MDT meeting, and said there was no evidence of cancer seen. They took two biopsies when he had is sigmoidoscopy, but the the doctors are saying that the biopsies are not showing 100% cancer, which I find strange, surely it is ir it’s not.

Anyway he’s due to see the surgeon, to have an op to take some of the linen away in the rectum.

Has anyone come across this before if so, did you have a stoma for life ir just at the surgery and until everything was healed.

or did you watch and wait?

your thoughts please.

Thank you

sandra

Kareno62 over 2 years ago

Hi Sandra. I’ve not heard of just the lining being taken away but it’s maybe so they can send a sample off to the path lab to analyse? Having a stoma will depend on how and what they are actually going to do. I had part of my bowel removed and the 2 ends rejoined. I had a stoma to allow the rejoin chance to fully heal then eventually had the stoma reversed. If there is the scenario where there is not sufficient bowel to rejoin then a permanent stoma would be the likely option.

Its hard to answer as removing some of the bowel lining may not involve cutting and rejoining the bowel? Perhaps you could ring his colorectal support nurse for clarification?

Take care

Karen x

ps there’s also an Ask the Nurse board on here if you want to try that too?

community.macmillan.org.uk/.../ask_a_nurse

Macmillan Support Line - 0808 808 00 00, 7 days a week between 8am-8pm

SandaJH over 2 years ago in reply to Kareno62

His Karen, thank you for your reply.

I may have got it wrong, I think maybe we will wait and see what the surgeon said he’s going to do. Your information was very helpful,

hopefully seeing the surgeon next week .

Take care

Sandra