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New here! For my birthday this year I received a state of the art video camera...shoved right up where the sun doesn't shine and a leaflet about Macmilllans. I suspect I'm not the only one who fluctuates between feeling very blase about everything and...
Good afternoon, My partner has just been diagnosed with bowel cancer. This has come as a real shock to him and I. I feel devastated about this news and am worried sick about what the future holds. We are awaiting the CT scan to find out if it has spread...
I have recently been diagnosed with MAP - please can anyone help at all with what is the best next steps for me I am still young and they have advised the next step is key hole surgery where they remove my entire large bowel. Is there no way around this...
Hi my husband has recently had a FIT test result of 33.9 & we are really worried about the possible outcome. We are waiting for a colonoscopy date & have a scan on 12th March
Hello, my husband was diagnosed with rectal cancer two weeks ago. He is having his pre-op tomorrow for tpe. I’m finding it difficult to process and am extremely worried about the operation and how life will be post op for him, and us.
I have just been diagnosed with Stage 4 colorectal metastatic cancel having had surgery and 6 months chemo a couple of years ago. I am waiting to see the oncologist in a few weeks when they have completed some further tests. As things are largely out...
Hi in July 23 I was diagnosed with colorectal cancer through the bowel screening. Previous to this I no symptoms. Because the tumour was on the anal verge I have had to have a permanent stoma they also removed rectum. Before surgery I had 25 rounds of...
Hi I'm newly diagnosed with rectal cancer and awaiting result on my liver Plan of action is radiotherapy then chemotherapy then bowel resection with stoma Then liver operation, this was all given to me on the day of diagnosis My head was a shed...
I'm undergoing Capox treatment and one of the side effects I have is tingling finger ends if cold. I'm not over worried about it and have been basically ignoring it so far. But then I wondered if, when I get the tingling when handling cold items, going...
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