I finish radiotherapy and chemo 3 days ago, before i finished I was sore around my vagina and bottom I was prescribed flamzine which eased, I’m in trouble I had thrush so I used a over the counter treatment, my main problem is I have read everywhere that...
Wondering if any one else has had experience of being out of breath when walking, going up stairs, getting dressed. Im 5 weeks post surgery and was feeling great but im now so tired and achey i cant be bothered doing anything. I get bad wind after eating...
So we saw the oncologist this morning and it's not great news..Tony has more mets to his liver and new mets on his lungs..he has a few affected nodes by his kidney and lower tummy as well...he is now incurable but the oncologist wants to look at control...
I was wondering how long anybody has waited for a scan after radiotherapy . I finish 5 weeks in Friday and have been told I won’t be scanned for another 10 weeks , it just seems a long time to wait
So dad has been home now for a couple of weeks and doing ok ish. He is still very frail. The thing that is upsetting him the most is the smelly discharge he is getting from his bottom ( sorry for be g descriptive) is there anything he can do to stop/slow...
Hi, in August 2022 had colonoscopy turned out it was a malignant tumour, he said he thought it was on the day but he wanted to check it. To cut a long story short I was on my gp app looking for a letter from my adhd team about meds and opened the new...
Hi all My wife was diagnosed with bowel cancer back in June last year. Scans then showed it had spread to her liver and lungs. Chemo was rough because her blood platelets were low and it delayed the chemo. She is drink dependent so cannot or will not...
Got my letters today pre-op Monday operation 6th ,because off having a good response to my treatment tumour has shrank substantially. Just wonder dose veryone get a ileostomy after this op. Surgeon hopes to be able to do keyhole and the tumour is quite...
Evening everyone, Following news that I'm all clear after chemo, liver resection, radiotherapy, pelvic extenteration, my CNS called out of the blue to let me know they have looked again at my scans (they were outsourced apparently) and there are 2 pelvic...
My boyfriend got diagnosed with bowel cancer in October 2022, He had an operation and now has a stoma. They were unable to remove the cancer at that stage, and the stoma was fitted as he had a blockage and was in agony. The operation went well and he...
