I have my face to face tomorrow with team following my positive and nurse will examine me, main worries I'm having is that I wouldn't be feeling like this if it wasn't bad as something sinister m I have terrible pain in left groin and every muscle hurts...
Apologies in advance if this is too much information I will try to be as discreet as I can. My husband has stage 3 rectal cancer had an end colostomy earlier this year and is currently undergoing radiotherapy and capecitabine. Despite the stoma he still...
My father was diagnosed with rectal cancer , he was going to have it surgically removed but the scan done the week before showed it has spread to the liver. It went to the liver team who said it was borderline operable, difficult but doable. The oncologist...
Some 12 months ago I had stage 2 colon cancer...over the last 2 weeks I've had heavy blood discharge after having a number 2..has anyone had this before
Additional side effects affecting quality of life after chemo round, only 2nd round but even 6 days later I'm still having these effects. It's crappy to begin the week knowing that just 1 week from now, I have to go do it again. A break from the chemo...
Hi All, My name is Kev and my now 80 year old mam had an operation in July 22 to remove Stage 3 Bowel Cancer tumour. The op went well and she has had regular check ups since, blood tests fine, scans etc, fine. A long term issue for my mam is diahorreah...
Hi, I'm still recovering from bowel surgery to remove a stage 2 tumour last September. On the whole I feel great, and whilst I haven't had any trouble with bowel movements, when I need to go, I need to go! I want to enjoy concerts again, but being trapped...
My husband’s treatment for Stage 4 Metastatic Bowel Cancer has been stopped as it’s no longer working and he’s been given 6 months . A referral to the Palliative Care Team has been made today and I wanted to know how long it takes before they come on...
Please could anyone offer my brother some advice. Stage 4 bowel cancer who had bouts of diarrhoea every 30 minutes until he developed an obstruction. After the hospital tried a stent which relieved the obstruction but did nothing for the diarrhoea. Eventually...
Does anyone else have this problem? I got the "hand foot syndome" very badly after only 10 days on my first cycle of Capecitabine. I just managed the 2nd and 3rd cycle on a lower dose with two week breaks instead of one week. On the fourth cycle it got...
