People of any background, gender identity or sexual orientation etc can be diagnosed with cancer. Please be welcoming and supportive when talking to others.
We keep this a safe space for everyone. To find out more, take a look at our Community Guidelines.
I will be starting treatment on Friday using oxaliplaten and Capecitabine and was wondering if anyone has experience of using homeopathic remedies with these two drugs and what they were. The remedies my homeopath has recommended have been rejected by...
Hi my name is David and I live in North Devon I'm about to start chemo this Friday and not looking forward to it. I have a tumor on my Liver caused by the spread of cancer from the colon. Hope to get some useful advice from the forum
Hi everyone I’m on chemo number 2 out of 6 for bowel cancer with liver mets (currently inoperable). Last treatment in January. Just wondered if anyone has been on a similar journey and what happened next for them after their initial treatment? Xx
Has anybody in the UK managed to follow an icing protocol using mittens and socks with frozen gel packs rather than the electric machines?
I haven’t been on here for a very long time. I was diagnosed in 2015 with bowel cancer and lung nets. I trawled the internet looking for success stories although I made it clear I didn’t want to know my prognosis I knew it was bad! There weren’t many...
Diagnosed in April 2025 with 2 synchronous primary cancers: Non hodgkin Lymphoma Bowel cancer at hepatic flexure Lymphoma is now in remission after 6 cycles of Pola-r-chp chemotherapy/immunotherapy. I feel amazingly lucky; was stage 4B, presenting...
In December 23 I had a coloscopy as part of the bowel cancer screening program which detected a LST close to the anal verge. A few polyps were removed. The biopsies didn’t show cancer. In the February I had TAMIS and recovered quickly from this. In March...
Hello I'm new to the forum I'm supporting my mum recently diagnosed in October. Unfortunately they couldn't get the biopsies from the colonoscopy. She's on day 5 of her treatment capecitabine. Getting discomfort and loss of appetite symptoms from her...
Greetings all, I will be starting a course of immunotherapy shortly to try and shrink my locally advanced tumour in the transverse colon. Can I ask anyone else who has had this approach how they fared with side effects please? As usual the list of them...
Hi, i was diagnosed with Colon Cancer in September last year, I had surgery and got the all clear. Ive been waiting for the results of a recent CT scan and my surgeon called me yesterday with the results, liver and lungs and other organs were clear...
