Diagnosed Stage 3 Colon Cancer early Oct24, surgery 20th Oct, which I am told removed the cancer, just finished first chemo cycle of 8 described as mopping up incase, or precautionary. Every twinge and ache worries me, is it the chemo, cancer, normal...
Hi Had surgery last year and finished chemo tablets on 2nd January. Feel worse now than when I was on tablets. Now have a very bad UTI and had to go to hospital yesterday, discharged with antibiotics b got bloods done and they have said my enzymes in...
My father in law has advanced bowel cancer (diagnosed in November 2024). He has deteriorated significantly since the diagnosis. A week ago he was told that it is aggressive. He spent 6 days in hospital over Christmas due to fluid build up in his tummy...
The fun doesn't stop just because my bowel cancer is in remission. My stoma for life is compromised by a hernia my specialists are avoiding addressing though it is getting worse. My specialist has just changed the date of my next quarterly check up with...
Hi It's that time of year again! I had my follow up scan on 3rd January and haven't had the results yet. I'm starting to panic as I usually hear within a week to 10 days. I know I'm being overanxious, but I'm starting to worry and imagine the worst...
Hi .I'm still waiting for the pathology report on the biopsy from colonoscopy last week .I have a report sent to my health file .The Polyp that is over 5 cm is a tubulovillious Adenoma.
Hello, I was diagnosed with Bowel cancer and underwent a low anterior resection 8 weeks ago to remove the tumour. I didn’t have a loop ileostomy during surgery but after being discharged from hospital it became evident that I had an anastomotic leak which...
Hi everyone, I have had Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy as a neoadjuvant treatment for stage 3 bowel cancer, this has now been completed and I today recieved an email to say I have an appointment with the surgeon on the 24th Jan. Does anyone know how long...
Hi everyone. I had my first colonoscopy in September 2023, when they found the dreaded tumour. I had the operation to have it removed in November 2023. I had my last CT scan in August of 2024. Now this coming Monday I have a colonoscopy scheduled...
I had a CT with contrast via ED a yr ago but nothing was found .One year on and still with similar symptoms that had me at the ED I was given a colonoscopy a few days ago because of a positive fit test .A larger than 5 cm lesion was found in the sigmoid...
