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Hi everyone I'm Steph from the Community team Here is a new thread for carers, family and friends. This is a space for you to chat, share experiences and support each other through issues related to your loved ones bowel cancer. The previous thread...
Hi there I have just completed my second round of FOLFIRINOX yesterday. It went better than my first round. I am not so dehydrated and fluffy in the head. They did slow down my Oxaliplatin over 3 hours rather than 2 which meant I didn't get the muscle...
Hi there. I have had one round of chemo on 1 October and about to have second one tomorrow. I have stage 4 bowel cancer with liver mets. I had no symptoms it was all picked up on a FIT test. Just wanted to reach out to anyone else who is on the same treatment...
Hello, my husband has just been prescribed Lonsurf as a 3rd line chemo. I've read upon possible side effects but wondered if any of you have experienced them and if so how bad you felt they were? Thank you. Xx
Hello.i was diagnosed bowel cancer 3 years ago.after chemo to shrink had resection which they told me was succesful.following 3 monthy blood tests .had ct scan.and found lesion on liver.after 2 types of chemo and a treatment to give me more time.nothing...
Hello we recently found out my daddy has bowel/rectal cancer. He started chemo had one dose but bow the oncologist has said theyre stopping chemo because cancer has progressed. Does that mean it's the end or is there another treatment they're going to...
Im 40 years of age I've been back and forth to my GP with H.pylori treated 3 times. However I kept regurgitating my food each time I ate for a while. I decided to exaggerate my symptoms inorder to have a gastroscopy and colonoscopy. Even after this...
Hello all, I'm worried sick that i have cancer. I have two young children, and the thought of cancer scares the life out of me. I can't sleep! In February I started feeling very tired and had this strange stabbing pain, in what i thought was my cervix...
Hi everyone, I'm starting chemo next week - 6 cycles of Folfoxiri - to treat a tumour in my sigmoid colon and a cancer deposit found in the pelvis area. I'm wondering what it's like having the take home pump for 48 hours? Does it make any noise and is...
Hello, can anyone please help me? I am currently having treatment for Endometrioid Ovarian and Uterine Cancer. Diagnosed August 2024 Ascites drained, full hysterectomy, ovaries, omentum, appendix, cervix, liver scrape and diaphragm scrape. Deposits...
