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Hello all, Just coming to last chemo on 4th December. If all goes well and tumour shrunk i will have surgery, just wondered if my Picc line will be removed pre op, its getting very itchy :-) Thank you
Hi, I've just been told I've cancer in one of the polyps I had removed in colonoscopy. I had 3. On my letter that day said probable benign but now this. I'm now awaiting my ct scan and hospital appointment so it's the unknown I'm anxious about. I'm 45...
Hi everyone I am posting my story so far in the hope that it is useful for anyone starting out here. I have been grateful for all the stories and advice that I have read here, they have been a great help I'm a 58yo man, living in London, married with...
Welcome to Nov and honestly October passed me in a flash and Nov is looking too full already . Hospital appointments seem to top the priority list but I guess in its own way that’s a good thing . Passed through the Cairngorms and noticed the first fall...
Hi, New to the group. 3 years ago I had surgery to remove a tumour from abdomen. At same time my appendix was removed. Pathology revealed I had goblet cell carcinoma and required chemo and further surgery to remove small bowel and lymph nodes. The...
Hi I'm new here... already had surgery for bowel cancer...now going onto cycle 5 but really struggling...does it get any easier...side effects are awful
Hi,, met my oncologist today, he said I had a 50 percent chance that the surgery had not got all the cancer as they couldn't get good margins, he suggested 6 months of chemo but said it would improve my chances by 10 percent, is it worth putting myself...
Hi everyone I’ve had one round of chemo , then started with a pain under my arm pit , like a dull ache. The following morning my arm was a funny shade of grey .. rang the help line , fast response blood test indicated blood clot, scan confirmed it so...
Hi all My wife finished five and a half weeks of radiotherapy and chemotherapy for rectal cancer (skin cancer) last Wednesday. She was warned that in the two to three months afterwards her rectal pain would get worse before it got better and it sure...
Hi, I had my reversal surgery almost 2 years ago (February). at yhe beginning was difficult, pain, pain, pain. Then it got better. But the last year it has been a nightmare, pain, constipation, living around going to toilet, if I go, when I go. the...
