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Well after 11 rounds of chemo, the CT scan shows the tumours in his liver and bowel have shrunk. Alongside this though his blood markers have gone up in the last 3 blood tets and are now back above 100 so MRI of his brain next week. Snow and strikes...
Hi everyone. I have had a low anterior resection and ileostomy. After surgery it was found to have spread into lymph nodes so began chemotherapy. before my first infusion my liver enzymes were too high (perfectly normal/low, immediately post surgery)...
Another 6 months have passed, & I had my latest CT Scan last Saturday. I can't remember how many I've had in the past 3 years. I still can't get used to the dye passing through the cannula & the awful feeling it produces! The day was dreadful - weather...
Hi everyone, hope you're doing well. I was advised to post this here as it relates to my bowel cancer mets. So I had my liver/gall bladder resection a week ago and had been doing well but the past couple of days my scar felt very red, sore and a lump...
So today I went for a walk, wrapped up warm wore gloves as the Folfox chemo affects my fingers when cold. Oddly whilst walking my eyelids started twitching and I had a job to keep my eyes open! Home now in the warm and eyes are still Twitching, has anyone...
Hi, I was diagnosed with a rectal GIST (type of sarcoma) in Jan '22 and have been on Imatinib targeted therapy since then. The plan was to shrink the tumour prior to operating. I've always known that an Abdominopereneal resection was on the cards. ...
Does anyone have any experience of having these type of polyps removed? I’m due to have a polypectomy on 2nd February and am a bit worried. My surgeon said that I had to have it done during the week so that a surgeon would be available if they perforate...
I feel like this is a silly Question, even though my stoma is going and my bag isn't fall. Can I still change it? My bag been on nearly 24 hours, I'm over thinking everything at the minute, with it being all new to me.
Just fetch my husband home after a cancer operation went in as a emergency a blocked lead to right sided hemicolectomy came home with all these pain killers injections etc etc how do you wade through all the information and tablets.
So I haven’t posted for a while as my husband has been going through chemotherapy. We’ve just seen the surgeon who has said there’s no cancer spread but the tumour is large in the lower rectum. He’s going to remove the tumour, the coccyx, the pelvic floor...
