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I have a colonoscopy booked for next Tuesday and I’m terrified. Before this I was telling myself that the it was probably just hemaroids, I’ve had them before and thought I had internal ones now but the GP couldn’t find anything on a digital and referred...
My husband’s treatment for Stage 4 Metastatic Bowel Cancer has been stopped as it’s no longer working and he’s been given 6 months . A referral to the Palliative Care Team has been made today and I wanted to know how long it takes before they come on...
Please could anyone offer my brother some advice. Stage 4 bowel cancer who had bouts of diarrhoea every 30 minutes until he developed an obstruction. After the hospital tried a stent which relieved the obstruction but did nothing for the diarrhoea. Eventually...
Hi- please can you share any experience of hair loss with CAPOX treatment? Is it unusual to lose your hair? Thank you
Does anyone else have this problem? I got the "hand foot syndome" very badly after only 10 days on my first cycle of Capecitabine. I just managed the 2nd and 3rd cycle on a lower dose with two week breaks instead of one week. On the fourth cycle it got...
Just started my 4th cycle of capox today and had my first throat spasm on the way out. Wow that was scary. I'm glad I had read about them here otherwise I would have really panicked! I knew I just had to keep breathing but I was also making a very loud...
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 all. My name is Colin and I am new to the forum. I have recently had a sigmoid cancer removed (no stoma) and had my first follow up appt with a registrar. I was told that my cancer was T3 N1 M0 and I will need chemo because of the affected lymph...
Hi. My husband had recently been diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer with liver and lung mets. He is starting chemo with Folfox shortly and has had a stoma bag fitted this week. Has anyone had positive results with treating lung mets as we have been told...
I was diagnosed with Bowel cancer, back in 2019. I had the Op. the Chemo, etc. I still gets posts from NHS, but have decided that I don't want to undergo these Poo samples, I am happy with being followed up, every 6 mths with my Colorectoral team.
