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Hello all, So tomorrow, my MDT are meeting with Liver specialists from Leicester to decide what they are going to tackle first. I’ve had a CT, PET scan and Colonscopy with biopsy all done and they said form this they’ll decide. My biggest worry is...
Hello everyone, Thank you for reason this Last year my mom has been diagnosed with right colon cancer stage 4, she had part of her colon removed and consequently had 7 sessions of chemotherapy. After that, her doctor reassured her that she did not...
So I have just found out that following a CT scan that I have probable advanced metastatic liver with primary colon cancer. I’m in total shock as 3 weeks ago I had been told it may be gallstones. I am 44 and wouldn’t consider myself young but feeling...
Hello. I start my second series of chemo at the end of April (deferred by my choice from last week). This will be 3 months of Irinotecan with Capecitabine (+ Atropine). On a 9 day cycle. Reading the list of side effects is, frankly, scaring me. In 2018...
Hi I'm new here and don't really know where to start, my mum had the horrible news that she has secondary liver cancer after her lung cancer last Feb which we all thought went well and she had her op to remove the cancer from her lung, she then had chemo...
Hi. I fell off a ladder 5 weeks ago and a week later had an MRI to check if there might be a puncture. No puncture but a couple of lesions on my liver. Two weeks ago a consultant phones me (by appointment) and said that it looked like secondary cancer...
So sorry if this is in the wrong place but mother in law only advised of 2 liver nodules this morning after completing chemo for bowel cancer. She has been told she will have TACE treatment but wondering about micro ablation but is this available to patients...
Met with his oncologist on thurs and although radiotherapy worked there are other tumours throughout the rest of the liver now,since Oct. Referred for palliative care. He isn't well enough ATM to consider immunotherapy but not sure that would help. Feeling...
Hi I was recently diagnosed with a secondary tumour in my liver. I had surgery four weeks ago to have it removed. It was found at a routine scan after having a tumour in my rectum last year. I have had radiotherapy and chemotherapy last year. Just wondering...
Sent home July 2020 on palliative care ..still alive waited til January 2022 for hospital appt Kings …anyone else left stranded?
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