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Hi, this is my first time posting. My mum is 59. In June 2023 she had a tumour removed from her bowel and some lymph nodes but was told they had it all and chemo not needed. Fast forward 9 months and she was told that there is no tumour in the bowel...
Hi all , I’m trying to gather information after having my chemo stopped. I had a lar in March and full hysterectomy, my histology came back as stage 2 , T3N0M0 V1. I saw the oncologist who prescribed Capecitabine 2500 twice a day! On day 3 I was blue...
Had a colonoscopy two weeks ago and got confirmation that is is cancer a week ago. MRI and CT scan two days ago, meeting with the surgeon today - preliminary results shows it's not likely to have spread. Team will study the scan results and form a treatment...
Was diagnosed 2 months ago and have just started immunotherapy. Had my first treatment this week and just wondering if anyone on here is going through immunotherapy treatment for colon/liver cancer?
My mother who has stage 4 colorectal cancer has recently gotten a nephrostomy to try save her kidneys and allow her to continue chemotherapy. Its only been two days, but the pain seems to be like a lot and shes having trouble even finding a good resting...
Dear Friends I was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer in November 2018. Since then, I’ve had chemo to shrink the tumours followed by bowel and liver surgery. The treatment has been successful in keeping some control over the cancer. But then it returned...
Well the last few months have been a nightmare, I want for my che.o in April and my picc line has stopped working so had to wait for another one. So started back on chemo and my ALT had risen along with my CEA quite a lot, so after team spoke with my...
In total shock, from having a vague intermittent pain in lower left abdomen in December, a few instances of constipation and a couple of poos that looked a but stringy to being diagnosed as stage 4 rectal cancer which has already moved to liver. Now waiting...
My son has coletectal cancer and is meeting the surgeon tomorrow for his results Will he get a treatment plan
So, I mentioned last week that I was going into the POLARiS study which is a two year long randomised medical trial of various treatments for Low Anterior Resection Syndrome, aimed at actually finding treatments that are effective and managed, as opposed...
