Hi I've just completed my first Capox and although I know I need it don't know how I can face no. 2. I usually have a positive mindset but instead of celebrating every day that's better, keep focusing on what is to come! Please can anyone make any...
Hi thank you in advance for your support. Has anyone had successful treatment of para aortic nodes. Diagnosed stage 3 in July... August scan showed 2 nodes still there in January scan detailed as insignificant.just anxious as my cea has risen from 13...
Where to begin… I’m post op having had a bowel resection from a bowel cancer diagnosis. My first week out of hospital was great. I was eating, going for short walks three times a day and generally in good spirits. Week two took a turn and saw me bed...
My sister is only 40 years young but has recently been diagnosed with stage 3 rectal cancer. She has had a week of radiotherapy and is about to start chemo next week. She has roughly 3 months of chemo followed by ELAPE (APR) with a permanent stoma and...
Some sunsets are worth sitting back and watching ! Hope you are all doing well . To any new person , please feel free to join in . You can add photos of yourself or activities but not other people as we don’t have their permission. But it’s basically...
Honestly I feel like giving up I'm on a chemo break and loving it been free from sickness breathlessness, fatigue planning every outing around my chemo. Booking bloods having pic flushed etc I had my scan on Tuesday and was ment to be seeing my oncologist...
Hi. I am here because my sister suggested it but i feel a fraud as i haveng had a diagnosis yet. What i have had is several years of irratic bowels with occasional bleeding then over the last couple of weeks lots of blood . Collecting a stool sample...
Hi, Last year I was told that I might have residual cancer after having a rectal polyp removed. The biopsy said there was adenocarcinoma in the deep margins. Naturally I was terribly concerned about this. My surgeon said it's gone! No further treatment...
Hello!!! hope you all are keeping well, I haven’t posted on here for so long - being a mum of 3 year old and 8 months old along with a teenager takes up all my time now! thought I’d share my husband’s journey, from December 2020 since he got diagnosed...
Hi I haven't posted for a while, but has anyone had a similar experiences?? Liver resection March 2023 - all fine, segment 7 resected. Chemo had made smaller met on segment 8 dissappear Aug 23 liver met discovered on segment 8 - sent for ablation...
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