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Well round 2 of Oxaliplatin and capecitabine starts today. Due to side effects last round, I'm having 75% reduction. Hopefully this is better. Don't want anymore hospital stays thanks. Really messed me up and my regime. #kickingtinatumour Hope you...
Hi everyone I’ve recently been diagnosed with bowel cancer a secondary cancer of the liver. I’m suffering with a lot of back pain at present regular paracetamol just isn’t working but i’m worried to try anything stronger which will cause me more issues...
Hello everyone, I have rectal cancer & am having treatment oxiplatin intravenously & Capecitabine tablets. I had been struggling with blockages & ended up in hospital twice the second time I had an emergency temporary Ileostomy stoma with a pouch...
Hi. Just found out hubby has cancer. Bowl,liver and lungs. Doctors says he will start cemo but it will only slow it down. He was fine 3 months ago. Had his yearly check up and a work health check but the last 4 weeks he can barely get out of bed. It's...
What a first month of treatment. Started on Oxaliplatin and capecitabine at the beginning of June. Infusion was fine. The side effects were worse than I thought. The neuropathy was something else, the tiredness, diarrhoea, queasy, pain. Used most of the...
GOOD NEWS UPDATE - ten weeks since operation, 3 weeks in hospital, 5 weeks on the vacuum dressing machine as I was one of the 30% of people whose wounds do not heal. I'm now driving, walking up to 3 miles (I'm a walker), just started doing careful yoga...
I had surgery last Monday to remove a malignant tumour from my colon at the join to the rectum. I'm feeling very well and not in too much pain. I'm now introducing food back into my diet. I have the surgeons report. What he could see matched the MRI and...
My relative has stage 4c BRAF mutation colon cancer with omentum mets. Initial chemo worked well even showed reduction and then within weeks it had started growing again. She had started chemo again but they said it wasn’t working so switched to encorafenib...
Hi Guys Haven't posted for a while. Just enjoyed 9 months with no chemo or any form of treatment! Was meant to have a liver ablation for another met, but it disappeared 9 months ago. All good for a long while! BUT... recent PET scan shows: a new liver...
Hi everyone, It's my first post here and it already feels so good to get this off of my chest. I'm 29, diagnosed with colon cancer in April 2025. My tumour was (saying was as I'm hoping chemo has worked some magic already) too big to operate on and...
