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I am doing OK my CEA levels are rising which is concerning me but not my oncologist he said they do on treatment it's 17 at moment started at 10 before treatment,I'm just on 5fu after a positive scan. I have my aunts funeral today and have my pump attached...
Vain is good We all should Love ourselves At peace in our skin Narcissism is no sin If we don't love ourselves How can others do so I know Don't fear their looks How they may see us Ask yourself why Let's not be shy A stoma is...
Hi new here in december i had 40cm of perferated tumour part of small bowel part of decending colon taken out a stoma put in and now have a bag my old bum is still in but disconnected a Gastro intestinal stromal tumour is very rare and am now waiting...
Newly here.
My mum has cancer of the rectum, a blood clot on her lung and COPD which is making it hard for her to breathe. She is on oxygen 24/7 to help her breathe. Once the blood clot has dispersed she will be able to breathe a lot better and go back to having...
When I first started this journey, I noticed that people spoke of the bowel/colon as if it is a separate being living within. Comments like 'waking up your bowel' after surgery, 'it doesn't like to be man handled' or 'it's been asleep for a long time...
Morning Simon has had his Colorectal treatment summary today after his emergency right hemicolectomy please could anyone tell me staging T4 N2 MX MEAN the bowel cancer has been removed in it's entirety 8 lymph nodes some cancer related cells .
Hi All! Me again with another worry! So I take antisickness tablets for 3 days post chemo, I suffer with a phobia of vomiting which I generally manage very well but due to my phobia I am too scared not to take the antisickness drugs. Just had my 4th...
It has been exactly one year since my small bowel cancer was diagnosed. I had an operation folllowed a month or so later with 7 rounds of Capox chemotherapy which took me to the end of August. The operation has left me with severe bile salt malabsorption...
Just touching base to let you know how well Dad's doing. We had an appointment on Monday eith the oncology/chemo clinical team. Results of biopsies of margins around removed tumours showed NO CANCER CELLS. 3 out of 16 Lymph Nodes showed signs of cancerous...
