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I've been searching on the forums but it's all about caring for people who have both cancer and dementia. Mum (who is 88) knows that I'm not well. She usually remembers that I told her I've been very constipated and tired (because I needed to explain...
Hi Guys. I had op for bowel cancer just over 5 weeks ago and initially everything was fine but then the area around the stoma became infected. I'm currently on a week of antibiotics to clear the infection but the area is very sore and bloody I'm using...
Has anyone got positive experience securing Personalised Care and Support Planning (PCSP) and the related Holistic Needs Assessment (HNA)? ---------- Anyone reading this that hasn't heard of these, here are the Macmillan links: https://www.macmillan...
Hello again I’ve just been told that my bowel cancer has reoccurred and is in 2 nodules in the abdomen area. I need a PET scan to determine next steps. I have lynch and the CNS seemed to think that immune therapy could be an option but they won’t know...
Hello, We have just been told today that our 12 year old son has colon cancer. We are understandably devastated. We don't know the extent...or have a treatment plan yet... but are meeting with doctors tomorrow. Another reason that this is particularly...
Hi I’m just literally been told yesterday the mass that was removed from my bowel when they was doing emergency obstruction bowel surgery which I am 3 weeks post op now is cancer and that I now have to have a thorax ct then if that all good I need chemo...
Having read a post earlier, I thought it might be an interesting idea to collect & amass everyone's symptoms of bowel cancer, prior to their diagnosis. It seems to me, (when reading here,) that symptoms vary such a lot, particularly in regard to the specific...
I am Derek, a young at heart 81 yr old. I had bowel cancer surgery at the beginning of March. All went well, but since coming home with a catheter, I have not been so good. I was told that I would have an appointment with urology in seven days but it...
Hi, I'm new here, having just had confirmation today that I have colon cancer. I've got to admit, I'm terrified. I had an extended right hemicolectomy last month on what the surgeon told me she was 99% sure was cancer. I was really holding on to that...
Hi all. My details are in my link but I am 2.5 years post stage 3 colon cancer, right hemicolectomy and then chemotherapy due to lymph node involvement. Just tired of lurching from one piece of the close monitoring I'm extremely grateful for, just to...
