Hi, my wife has been diagnosed with rectal cancer. Fortunately caught early and hasn’t spread. Treatment options are surgery with temporary stomach or 5 weeks of daily radiotherapy. Apparently, for tumours this size and at this stage, there is increasing...
Hi, My name is Dee. My husband has just been diagnosed with bowel cancer stage 4. It has spread to the liver. We are still currently doing scans and waiting for molecular testing. And then we will discuss the next steps with our oncologist. I am still...
Hi. I have low rectum cancer and after radiotherapy need surgery Does any one know if you can choose where you have the operation? I definitely don’t want to go to my local colorectal service Any one else made a choice? many thanks
Hi, I’m newly diagnosed with a 5cm tumour near where my large intestine joins the small. i feel very lucky to have been told it doesn’t look to have spread out of the colon and I have an operation planned in the New Year (awaiting confirmed date). ...
Hi Not posted previously as I haven’t been in the right head space. ………In a nutshell: - Sigmoid tumour picked up at Colonoscopy following National Screening Programme positive FIT test (no symptoms) - Higher Anterior Resection mid October 2025 with...
Hi all Literally had the best news following surgery to remove my cancer got the call to say I do not need any follow up chemo or radio. So yes I have got an ileostomy so haven't come out of this journey unscathed but hopefully this can get reversed...
I've posted quite abit over the years, usually outlining diagnosis & treatment, but lately I've tended to only discuss the 'other end' of the experience, what comes after. In mid-December 2018 I went for a colonoscopy that was not for Bowel Cancer...
Hi sorry if this isn’t the right place to be posting as I haven’t been diagnosed, but I attended A&E last night for some symptoms and have been put on a 2WW suspected cancer pathway. I’m feeling quite nervous as I’ve just moved away from home and unsure...
Hi my name is David and I live in North Devon I'm about to start chemo this Friday and not looking forward to it. I have a tumor on my Liver caused by the spread of cancer from the colon. Hope to get some useful advice from the forum
Hello I'm new to the forum I'm supporting my mum recently diagnosed in October. Unfortunately they couldn't get the biopsies from the colonoscopy. She's on day 5 of her treatment capecitabine. Getting discomfort and loss of appetite symptoms from her...
