Bowel Cancer

Hi YorkshireLadd

Welcome! For me the most helpful information I was given was from BowelCancerUK. Here is the link to their Pathway document:

https://bowelcancerorguk.s3.amazonaws.com/Publications/YourPathway_BowelCancerUK.pdf

I found it great for explaining the must know elements.

And i'd also suggest you have a discussion with your oncology/CSN nurse as they will be able to talk you through your specific treatment plan.

Good luck and we're all here for you

Morning 

have  you family support make sure you get all the support you need take it I did and im so glad I did I spoke about my little cancer friend.

don't over do it but listen to the support from yr consultant cancer team.

everybody appearance different symptoms but don't forget your allowed a rant especially when yr get a down day, this site  has helped me in information and laughter sad moments.

Big beautiful hugs 

Hi Crumpetsortoast

Thanks for the information you gave me & I will have a good read of it & have a chat with my csn nurse. 

Have a good weekend 

Hi Yorkshire!add and a warm welcome to the board from a Yorkshire lass! I’ve attached a couple of links to posts that we started about radiotherapy and chemotherapy but I just want to add that the chemo that you will be having is quite a low dose and used to enhance the effects of the radiotherapy so the side effects won’t be as extreme as some of those mentioned in the post?

 Radiotherapy care top tips ! 

 Chemo care ! Top Tips:-

The actual treatment takes about 15 minutes although there can be a lot of waiting around if there is a backlog for the machines so I used to ask for early morning appointments then go in to work straight after. You lie on a hard table, the radiographers squidge you into the right position to line up with your tattooed dots and then the machine whirls found in front of you and you’re done. You’ll probably be given loperamide to combat any diarrhoea and creams to apply to the area being treated. 

You may experience tiredness towards the end but everyone is different so just listen to your body and see how you go. You’ll then have a break while the treatment continues to work and then a scan to see how effective it’s been.

If you click on peoples names then you can sometimes see their treatment so far and feel free to ask anything you like and we’ll be happy to help and support you through this

Take care

Karen x