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Hello to everyone, big love and hugs to everyone who is and has gone through bowel cancer. I was diagnosed a couple of years ago when my appendix went, histology came back with two different cancers in my appendix and had spread to my lymph nodes. Was...
Hi everyone. I recently asked for my TNM stage as I wasn’t given it at diagnosis & didn’t really think too much about it. Just wanted to get on with treatment. I was given it last week as ypT3 N0 Mx … Could someone explain a little about this staging...
Hi,Im going to have the first radiotherapy today at Mount Vernon the start of five sessions. Did anyone lose weight when waiting for this? Ive lost approx 8lbs in 3-4 weeks. I assume it would be down to worry anxiety etc etc? My biggest problem is...
Hi everyone hope you are all keeping well. My mum has decided to go for the bowel cancer operation. It's all happening quickly she went back to see her consultant last week, she had a letter yesterday her operation is on the 30th of December her pre op...
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Hello all. I had prostate cancer 8 years ago (had radical prostatectomy) and have recently been diagnosed with bowel cancer. I've had a colonoscopy, MRI scan and CT scan and am awaiting results and details of my treatment. I'm pleased to have found this...
Had surgery in September, for stage 2 colon cancer (T4) with no spread. I started adjuvant chemo 3 weeks ago, but I was getting pain in my chest. Now the capecitabine (capox) regime has been pulled and I am being sent to the Beatson for iv chemo over...
Has anyone got advanced cancer or had it and how did they cope what treetment did they have and how they doing now
Start my treetment Friday but Iv been sick iv got sickness tablets but not working
So hubby has a face to face appointment tomorrow in the Clinical Diagnostics Unit to get the pathology report post surgery to remove his sigmoid tumour..he had a PET scan pre surgery and was told there was some lymph node involvement and he was T3N1M0...
