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Hi, my dad recently went to get a bowel byopsey, he had 8 tumours removed only one contained cancer, he was then sent for an mri and xray. He was contacted by his consultant, to say that the results, were certain that they had removed this cancer complete...
Hello, I need support and hope joining this group I can find this. I am 59, my husband is 65. We are confused, apprehensive and worried what is ahead of us. Received our devastating news Christmas Eve 2019, treatment started March 2020 - Zitega tablet...
HI, had left hemicolectomy March 2020 and have just been diagnosed with High Grade Prostate Cancer. My options may be limited due to scar tissue from open bowel surgery. Can anyone offer any advice?
Hi All Ivy got advanced prostate cancer and have now arrived at a point where although I am have been on Prostap for a year I have a swollen lymph node just below my kidney . The uretic was squeezed shut so I had to ave a bypass pipe from the kidney...
Hello there fellow forum, We are a family in dyer need of advice and support! My dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer ~7 years ago and under went surgery and radiotherapy. Since then it had been pretty smooth sailing and with regular PSA checks...
Hi everyone, I posted recently about the anxiety I'm feeling about my dad's Mri prostate results which showed a larger "mass" which needs investigating. His biopsy is on 21st Dec but he's already a bone scan (yesterday I think). Is this routine or...
I wrote about two months ago explaining that my Dad has advanced castrate resistant prostate cancer, gleason score 5+5=10. He had radiotherapy on his spine in May then spinal decompression surgery in June (after which my Mum had a severe stroke and is...
Hello...just getting my/our head round our lives of last few weeks. Just going to have a read and look for now...
Hi I had 38 sessions of radiotherapy that finished on December 2nd .lm really have trouble passing water as I want to go but it won’t start and it’s very painful.Has any body had this and if so will it get better
Hi everyone, We hope you don’t mind us posting here today but we wanted to share some of our festive content. You may notice quotes from this group, in our latest blog linked below: https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/community_news/posts...
