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Hi I have a number of question some may appear daft. Do you need to notify DVLA that you are on chemo? Are there any restrictions? I am due to start chemo on 19th Sept (pre Queen) I going on capecitabine tablets but not had any updates how and when...
Hello to everyone. I am new to the forum & recently diagnosed with bowel cancer in early February this year. After speaking with the doctor I know what treatment I will be having & its a combination of radiotherapy & Chemotherapy. I don't really know...
Hello everyone, I'm new today and am having a lot of trouble since having chemo/radiotherpy for anal cancer. My treatment finished on 2nd January, but things aren't getting any better. I was told by every radiotherapist ad nauseam that the pain would...
I'm suspecting I'll have to go to Dewsbury for my chemo' and I can only get there by my car. So I will have to drive myself back home. What is the effect on driving your car when you just have a dose of chemo'.
My husband was diagnosed with low rectal cancer (T2/T3a No Mo. After 5 weeks of chemo and radiotherapy and follow up CT & MRI scans the results have come back as 'significant response to tumour'. We saw the consultant this week who said the tumour has...
Hi anyone who knows me After Chemo Nov and Dec, it's finally arrived - time for liver resection. In hospital now - being done tomorrow. Best wishes to everyone Nettie
HI All Just wanted to come back and share my outcome for anyone else going through that hard wait from referral to colonoscopy. So after all my symptoms, severe episodes of rectal bleeding, cramps, alternating constipation and diarrhea and family...
Hi All, After successful recovery from high anterior resection i have just been diagnosed with Testicular Cancer which at the ripe old age of 62 i thought a little strange, that said i was a little bemused that after all this time on surveillance it...
Today Simon was still in Hospital had CT scan MRI scan bloods eco still didn't explain why he had pain in heart 10 days in hospital. Has oncologist appointment in out patience this afternoon in clinic wheeled him downstairs eventually saw a oncologist...
I've had the Colonoscopy, two CT scans and two keyhole cuts. I met one of my consultants yesterday to decide my treatment. He told me I'm T4 that is about 80 mm in size. Then he told about the options between Chemo' and Surgery. I'd already discussed...
