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Hello everyone , I have just joined the group, I had surgery for colon cancer and start chemo next week.
Hello, I just feel the need to talk with people who have had or are having the same experience as me. My husband was diagnosed with bowel cancer in November last year - he had an operation on 27 Jan 2024 which was more complicated than expected, The surgeon...
Hi ! 2 things that are in my mind. Firstly i am in process for treatment of stage 4 bowel cancer which has spread to my liver . I had radiotherapy and chemo towards rhe end of the summer last year which shrunk tumours enough for surgery . I had bowel...
Evening, I’m struggling with anxiety just now. I had a consultation at the hospital on Monday and they found a rectal tumour. I am booked in for a colonoscopy next Friday. Problem is I have pressure on my right side and cramping and spasms in...
Hello, I hope everyone is as well as you can be, and I'm very sorry to get to know anyone who visits this post in such awful circumstances. My fiancé, in his mid 30s have been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer which unfortunately spread to his liver...
Hi , I was told 2 days ago I have a tumour in my stigmoid colon and that it is cancer. I had the MRI the same day and CT scan the day after. I am such an emotional wreck as the will be discussing me in MDT next Thursday and I don’t have a prognosis yet...
My husband finished his Capox chemo on Monday and I thought we would be ecstatic and jumping up and down but we don't really know how to feel, just a bit sort of numb really. We feel like we aren't the same people we were before his emergency surgery...
Hi can anyone tell me have they been diagnosed as having colon rectal cancer that is now showing low volume lung metastases what treatment have you been offered . Is anyone on watch and wait before starting any treatment Thank you
I noticed a lump in my lower stomach 2 months ago and only went to the doctor last week, feels stupid now but I honestly thought they would think I'm a hypochondriac. It's fairly large even the nurse described it as such. My saving grace is a family...
Hi my husband was diagnosed with rectal cancer last week and is now awaiting surgery on the 21st ! How life can change so quick. He has to have a colostomy bag for life which I know isn’t the end of the world and the outcome could of been a lot worse...
