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Hello everyone, I am new here. I turned 40 this year and so far my forties have been pretty terrible! I was wondering if anyone has experienced or is experiencing anything similar to me. Here’s my journey so far. A positive FIT test of 13 following...
I'm not sure I'm posting this in the right place. I had surgery back in October 24 to remove a tumour from my sigmoid colon stage 3 with 6 out of 17 lymph nodes affected. I had 4 rounds mop up chemo. And recently I had a ct scan and blood tests in...
Hello there I've to make a decision on treatment by 17 July when I will be 13 weeks post operation and the thought of Oxaliplatin petrifies me. I am immune compromised as I have low neutrophils between 1.01 and 1.61 due to lifelong medication I have...
Hi I have just been diagnosed with colon cancer and have been offered the FOXTROT 3 trial. I just don't know what to do Has anyone got any advicebor experience that they would share. I'm terrified
Hi there , I’m new here . My mum has recently been diagnosed with colon cancer with metastasis to the liver . She is 87 and is too frail to withstand any treatment so is having palliative care . Just wondering if anyone is having a similar experience...
Just wanted to give an update on my sister as some of you have commented and given advise. going from the 2 CT scans, 1 MRI and obviously the colonoscopy, it looked as though this was going to be major surgery. They said it had spread to her womb but...
Hi all. I have been reading through all the amazing stories on here and thank everyone for posting the good and bad. It has really helped me understand the terminology, feelings, emotions that everyone is going through to realise what I am feeling is...
Hi fellow forum followers, I finished 12 rounds of Folfiri (very lucky as had minimal side effects) on 16th May but couldn't get a CT scan until 13 June. I didn't give this too much thought, which is my default position, until my results, which showed...
Hello - I am new to this forum so I will start by saying what happened to me. I had no real symptoms of bowel cancer until two days before emergency surgery. I didn’t have my regular morning poo for two days and then developed awful stomach cramps and...
Hi, I hope it’s okay to post here. Long story short, I have always has IBS and food intolerance issues but no allergies. I have had various tests and I am not coeliac, I do not have any IBDs (crohns/colitis), ulcers or diverticulitis. I don’t have internal...
