My partner was diagnosed with colorectal cancer 4 years ago. He’s had 4 surgeries, chemo and radiotherapy and has two stomas now - colostomy and urostomy. He’s coped well with it all over the last 4 years. His 3rd surgery was to treat metastatic cancerous...
I was told I had rectal cancer in May 2022 I received radiology and chemotherapy for 25 days In August 2022 the idea was to reduce the tumor in size then operate the treatment did it’s job so I could have surgery . But my wife died of the same cancer...
Hi All I had a dissected right helicolectomy In August. 19 nodules were removed, 1 of which was cancerous. Yesterday I had my first round of chemotherapy. I had an infusion over 2 hours of Oxaliplatin. Today I started Capecitabine twice a day...
I have just been diagnosed with bowel cancer. I had the colonoscopy and endoscopy yesterday and the CT scan today, I dont know yet what grade of cancer and what my treatment options are. I, and my wonderful husband, have been thrown into this with no...
Hi there I was diagnosed with cancer three weeks ago and found out on Friday that it doesn’t look like it’s spread. I am beyond relieved, as I had worked myself up convinced it had spread to my liver. My op is on 4 January, so I’m making the most of...
Hi I was diagnosed with with stage 4 last August and started Chemo in the October. It had already spead to my liver We threw everything at it but it was clear it had other ideas It spread into my stomach and is now in my lungs I came to the decision...
Hello, I joined this online community today after spending the last 9 days processing the results of my colonoscopy. I hadn't had symptoms for long before I went to the GP & was given a FIT test that returned positive (although now ruminating somewhat...
Hi Everyone! So, how was your weekend?? Mine was so, so. Jay seems to be slightly better but to me not much he sits and tells me he's ok and I just wish I could believe him and taking his word for it is not enough. I've had the `runs` this weekend...
So, tomorrow Jay goes in and gets his PICC line fitted. I'm feeling all sorts of emotions for him just now. Nervous, Hopeful and Emotional all rolled into one. He got a phone call yesterday from the Beatson cancer unit in Glasgow as I think I mentioned...
Hi, I’ve recently joined this forum to read and share experiences and advice. I’ve had a bit of a journey so far and it’s only just begun. This post might be longish, sorry, but I need to write it down somewhere. I’m 39, a family man with 2 young...
