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Some sunsets are worth sitting back and watching ! Hope you are all doing well . To any new person , please feel free to join in . You can add photos of yourself or activities but not other people as we don’t have their permission. But it’s basically...
Honestly I feel like giving up I'm on a chemo break and loving it been free from sickness breathlessness, fatigue planning every outing around my chemo. Booking bloods having pic flushed etc I had my scan on Tuesday and was ment to be seeing my oncologist...
We are utterly terrified. The last 3 weeks waiting ( though we know how lucky we are it’s been fast tracked) as been horrendous.
Hi. I am here because my sister suggested it but i feel a fraud as i haveng had a diagnosis yet. What i have had is several years of irratic bowels with occasional bleeding then over the last couple of weeks lots of blood . Collecting a stool sample...
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Hi Everyone, My CRT finished in November and was followed by 3 rounds of Oxilaplatin. I had a CT scan and an MRI the week before last and met with my Oncologist last week. I have been told that my treatment has worked really well, and I can be "cured...
I am on capox, 3 weekly cycles. I was due to start cycle 3 last week which was deferred due to low platelets, this week my platelets are even lower so it has been deferred again. I can't get through to my consultant to ask anything about this. Has anyone...
Hi was up a and e last week server pain upper right belly had blood tests done all clear, but they did a an urgent 2 weeks referral for what I was told would be a ct scan of bowels and abdom. but just had letter for appointment this Wednesday and it just...
Hi, Last year I was told that I might have residual cancer after having a rectal polyp removed. The biopsy said there was adenocarcinoma in the deep margins. Naturally I was terribly concerned about this. My surgeon said it's gone! No further treatment...
Hello, just a quick post as I have another post running which I have also given a general update as to my journey but wanted to have something more specific here. I have stage 4 colon cancer, 2 liver mets, all very small. However found out today I have...
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