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My dad was told on Friday he has terminal bowel cancer, with max of 12 months. Completely out of the blue. He went into to hospital with suspected strangulated hernia and he was told on his own of the diagnosis. He was then discharged, he has a colonoscopy...
Diagnosed with stage 3 rectosigmoid adenocarcinoma Jan 2021. 7/20 lymph notes affected and some spread to tissue, hence surgery followed by Folfox for four months and 2 cycles of Capecitabine. Good response overall. One scary moment - mid chemo - CT and...
I have a picc line in at the moment but I'm thinking of asking for a port as I'm finding the picc very restricted I'm having to have nurse in once a week for flush then bloods and I find it difficult with clothes it's bulky. I'm also worried about getting...
Hi, I was diagnosed at the beginning of Dec, successfully had surgery just over 4 weeks ago. Thankfully I had a rejoin, no stoma. Also, no further treatment required. I'm hoping very soon that the post surgery symptoms of my bowel habits will settle...
On the 9/2/23 we were given the news my husband has advanced T4 bowel cancer. He’s has bloods & a further CT scan. He has already undergone emergency surgery for 6 & 1/2 hours and has haf a colonoscopy. We are now waiting to attend the first oncology...
After Simon being in hospital for 10 days after heart pain on capox lots of scans bloods Mri with a meeting with the oncologist in clinic on Thursday told us he cannot have chemo because it was doing damage to heart and liver but cannot give us anything...
Hi, so im needing some advice my poor grandma got diagnosed with bowel cancer(rectum) 23rd jan 23 13 days after she lost her husbandc the staff surgeon consultant nurses been amazing. However she had surgery done 12 days ago for a stoma bag she had...
Hi, this is all very new to me. My dad was diagnosed with bowel cancer just before Christmas. He has had surgery that unfortunately went wrong, he has now been left with faecal incontinence even though he has a colostomy. Is this normal, I’m struggle...
Hi all This post has nothing to do with cancer (although I have continued to post & discuss the subject since my diagnosis back in 2019.) Therefore, perhaps Admin. may not think this appropriate for discussion. If so, I have no problems if my post is...
My husband has stage 4 bowel cancer with spread to his liver he has been on Folfox with targeted Panitumumab and after his 6th cycle they have just scanned him and yesterday we found out that his mets have shrunk enough that the surgeons are now happy...
