I'm new to the forum, I'm supporting my husband who has just started on a clinical trial immunotherapy for bowel cancer. He also has a small tumour on his pancreas. He's had his first dose - a double dose and the last ten days have been a rollercoaster...
I am new here Yesterday i got the news i wish i never heard… I have been diagnosed with incurable stage 4 colon cancer which has spread to my lymph nodes and a possible spread to my lungs. I am 73 years old already plodding along with COPD. I have...
Hello all - has anyone had a PET (or CT/PET) diagnostic scan after chemotherapy (after rectal cancer surgery in my case) rather than an MRI? I can't have MRI scans due to a particular type of metal ear implant, so I'd appreciate views as to whether the...
Hi has anyone on here had the Papillon treatment? I’m 4 months out from my treatment and a sigmoidoscopy has shown the rectum cancer is still there. My local colorectal team want me to have the big operation removal of rectum 6/7hours surgery and permanent...
Hi All ok so having found my Side Effect for cycle 1 on Capecitabine was not a side effect at all but an infection, i am feeling more confident. i find myself eager for the next blood test to see if i can start cycle 2. but yet i fell its a bit strange...
Hello everyone and thank you for letting me join. I'm a very fit and healthy 54 year old mother and grandmother so I am in total shock over my rectal cancer diagnosis and cannot believe how quickly things have moved on as I am booked in for surgery...
Hi all Thanks for all the support and well wishes. I had severe diarrhoea and assumed it was a side effect. And even 2 visits to A and E I was told the same but kept me on imodium which was not working. Well 4 days ago I got to see my oncologist...
Hi, After a whirlwind few weeks of tests and scans I have been diagnosed with rectal cancer. Nurse called me yesterday to say I was discussed at MDT and have to get radiotherapy and chemo to shrink the tumour and there is one lymph node close by. I...
Just about to start the journey still trying to come to terms with the news
I am waiting for histology results and getting anxious
