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Hi I was diagnosed with stage 2 bowel cancer a few weeks ago. I have radiotherapy and due to start chemo. I am young and fit with a young family. I am worried when I start chemo I will feel I’ll straight away and for the full duration of the chemo which...
Hi all I am a 46-year-old, who has just had bowel surgery for the removal of a cancerous sigmoid polyp, never had any symptoms just did the poo test as part of a health check at work! The surgeon reported that he got all the tumour and no lymph node...
Feeling a bit in limbo again! My husband was diagnosed with stage 3 Rectal cancer last August and had gone through neoadjuvent radio and chemotherapy therapy, before having an anterior resection 4 weeks ago. I’m glad to say that he’s recovering well and...
Hi everyone, thanks for letting me join, I was diagnosed a few weeks ago with bowel cancer, had my CT Scan but still waiting on results, hoping it hasn;t gone anywhere else and is only in my bowel, if this is the case I will have surgery within next four...
Good evening folks. I’m curious to know if anyone has suffered the same side effects as my husband. He had a laparoscopic right hemi-colectomy on the 14th May. He had an epidural in for 2 days and was in hospital for a week. On about day 3 he experienced...
Hi all I'm searching for a 'meet the expert' video about, or largely about, LARS (Low Anterior Resection Syndrome). An IT crash has lost me my browser bookmarks, which contained some very useful stuff on understanding and living with LARS, in particular...
Hi has anyone had a similar experience.... whilst checking my rectal tumour for which I had surgery last October the tracer also lit up my tonsils. Right 6.3 and left 4? Has anyone on here had a similar result? Does this always happen with tonsils? Should...
New to all this. Initial blood tests early March all came back fine. FIT test came back 200. Sent for colonoscopy end March and 35mm malignant looking tumour found at the rectosigmoid junction. Knew something was wrong when they fetched my husband and...
Hi all, Got out of hospital 2 weeks ago after spending 4 weeks in hospital, due to a mis diagnosed bowel problem by my local surgery Took myself to a+e with excruciating tummy pain, woke next day to be told I had just had major bowel surgery to remove...
Hi! I am 52 and had emergency bowel surgery 3 weeks ago to remove a tumour causing a blockage. I thought I was constipated and was being treated by GP with increasing amounts of laxatives! I was so unwell by the time of the surgery, I needed to be...
