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I have been on target therapy for 3 session but just had a short break before more treatment. I also.have a stoma. I am.so.low and feel.dreadful.every day. Suffering terribly with nausea so now I.eat very.little which worries me. I feel.so.unwell.I don...
Hi I’ve just started my CAPOX chemo, 315 mg of Oxaliplatic yesterday and now 2300 mg of Capecitabine. The latter seems very high?
Had a meeting with my oncologist yesterday and left feeling really annoyed basically I am re challenge folfori was originally on it last year had excellent results, so after failed other treatments he put me back on it last week so I mentioned having...
Hi I'm 105 kg and 5"10 and they want me to take 2800mg twice a day.of capecitabine so 5600mg a day.
Can i just ask if anyone has had the numbness on lips and tongue due to the ox chemo and if there's anything I can do to stop it ?
Hi,just wondered, how quickly do you get after affects from chemo, I have my 1st one coming on Tuesday, will I feel anything during and straight after ? or does it take a day or so to kick in?
I have been clear since May And I am on watch and wait. I have had my first quarterly check and my markers came bag at 6.2 . So I had another scan and more bloodsand a sigmoid colonoscopy they did not find anything on the scan but my bloods came back...
Has anyone made a decision not to have the full amount of chemo cycles that were originally planned? I have had radiotherapy with capecitabine for 5 weeks then a break of 4 weeks and started Capox infusions with tablets for two weeks. I have neuropathy...
OK so I had a tennis ball surgically removed at the end of May 2023 (after about a years toing and froing as to what was wrong with me). Started while in Spain with "acute runs to the toilet" trying to cross your legs and keep it in. Initailly diagnosed...
My husband was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer last year it has been a long year and even though right at the beginning we were told surgery wasn't possible we finally got the news weve been longing to here a couple of months ago surgery is now possible...
