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Hello wise ones, I'm looking for some advice - not necessarily 'medical' advice, but your own lived experience if anyone has it. I've undergone both colon (3/4 of colon removed) and liver surgery (70% of liver removed) and 9mths chemo. Last chemo...
Hi, I'm new to this. What seems like an age ago I did my bowel cancer screening thingy and just to say I'm so thankful to the brilliant NHS for sending it out to me. I was called in very quickly for a colonoscopy, this revealed a tumour the size of...
Hi. I was diagnosed with ovarian csncercearlyc2022. Spread tk bowel. Had surgery 29th September which included removal of parts of small and large intestine, then joining both with a tube. No stoma required. Now have bowel problems. Almost constant...
Dear Stage 4 Club Members I thought I would write a few notes on my cancer journey. My hope is that things will not perhaps seem quite as desperate (after reading this) for other S4 subjects as they sometimes appear. Diagnosed as S4 back in Jan. 22...
Hello Everyone, Hope everyone is doing OK. Sorry I haven’t been on here for a while. I had ileostomy reversal in March this year (formed temporarily after LAR surgery for bowel cancer). Things were going really well, then over April/May/June suffered...
Hello all, I hope everyone is doing ok. I was diagnosed with stage 3 rectal cancer in April. After a week of radiotherapy and 4 cycles of capox chemotherapy I am getting surgery on Thursday - permanent colostomy. I was wondering if anyone who has been...
Hi all. Not been on here in a while. I’m on my 7th cycle of chemo for colorectal cancer. Tumour removed in may now chemo for mopping up. I’m on Xelox regime. Throughout treatment I’ve been getting aches & pain in my lower right leg. I’ve been coping with...
Yesterday I read a really brilliant, humorous poem on the 'New here, say hello' Bowel Cancer Chat and wondered if there would be scope for 'Poems, Prose and Positivity' thread. Just somewhere for anyone in the Bowel Cancer Chats, to post poems, prose...
hello all. where to start, my story i guess. i hadnt felt myself in the last few years or so, tired weak depressed, lack of energy and so on. but couldnt put my finger on why i felt this way, i had a small holding which i reluctantly sold and bought...
Hi all, I haven’t posted on here for some time. My mum had ovarian cancer eR in 2021 then later diagnosed with rare appendix cancer goblet cell that same year (following pathology results after her debulk surgery for ovarian). She is currently now stage...
