Feeling really heartbroken my husband was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer with spread to lungs in August 2022 he was originally told uncurable and unoperable but after 9 months of chemo and 5 weeks of radio we finally got told in July 2023 that surgery...
Hello everyone, I'm new here and 58 years old. I am 8 weeks on from a right hemicolectomy for a tumour in my caecum. They took 34cm of bowel and 18 lymph nodes. My cancer was stage 2 and the tumour grade was T3N0M0. I hoped not to have chemo but there...
Hello, I hope everyone is as well as you can be, and I'm very sorry to get to know anyone who visits this post in such awful circumstances. My fiancé, in his mid 30s have been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer which unfortunately spread to his liver...
My husband finished his Capox chemo on Monday and I thought we would be ecstatic and jumping up and down but we don't really know how to feel, just a bit sort of numb really. We feel like we aren't the same people we were before his emergency surgery...
I have got an appointment to have a follow up colonoscopy after having an operation for cancer a year ago, and being left with a stoma. To say I am not looking forward to it is an understatement, I have cancelled once and rebooked it, but to be honest...
Hi , I was hoping someone could help me , my cancer folder did contain about financial help from macmillan but I just feel like I can't, In my mind , im the one who donates to them and helps where I can , And I feel like there are other people worse...
I have had operation to remove Tumour in November 23 and now having chemotherapy. I am finding this chemo okay compared to the chemo I had when I had breast cancer 15 years ago. That was awful but I survived! One of the side effect s of this chemo is...
It is nearly four years since my operation, I didn’t have a stoma. My husband says I should ask someone, as i am constantly, what i can only describe as burping, or belching, it is not painful in any way, and not necessarily after eating, just curious...
Hi, I have a stoma due to bowel cancer, the op was in October, afterwards I declined chemo. Since then I have heard nothing about any follow-up appointments, is this because I refused chemo?
