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The Financial part of this terrifying situation: My boss is really supportive with all this mess I am going through, but I personally lost more than £15000 this year due to my career changes, luckily I did not lost my job so far... but is getting...
Hello, I wonder if anyone else here has had a similar experience? I have omental metastases which were biopsied and determined to be of colorectal origin; however the colonoscopy could find no primary tumour. I am therefore on palliative chemo folinic...
Has anybody gone down the surveillance route when being told you have a polyp and stalk that is cancerous
I though everything was going well after right hemicolectomy operation on 1 July. Nearly 5 weeks after op I become feverish and a small part of wound was red. Got worse so ended up at out of hours gp for antibiotics. Then wound burst open and all this...
Hello all, I am new to this, first of all apologies for the way I will describe my present medical status... its is all new and Really scary to me. Hearth attack back in December 2024, stents fitted to keep me alive, double bypass open heart surgery...
I am completely blindsided by this. Husband (56) got diagnosed in Thursday following a preventative test that he got due to his age. No symptoms whatsoever and he almost didn’t do the test. Completely blindisided by result. I think we were too shocked...
Hi all, First time posting, hoping for some experience and advice as my GPs seem completely out of their depth. I am struggling to find a laxative that doesn't make things worse - im on oramorph morphine although have recently been prescribed MST which...
Have had copy of CT report. Seeing my oncologist later. Confirms that there are liver mets as well as the tumour in the bowel. Also raises concerns that there are mets in the lung and peritoneal as well. I just don't understand how I can go from feeling...
Some of you saw my post that I had an unexpected diagnosis following a colonoscopy on Sunday. Had my CT scan yesterday and whilst we are awaiting official confirmation from radiologist the consultant said it looks like there are shadows on my liver suggesting...
Hi, I had the above treatment. My last chemo cycle was in Feb 24, I was scanned in March and seen by Oncology, who signed me off with them and passed me over to colorectal for monitoring. At this time I had slight numbness in my feet and swelling. As...
