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My mum was diagnosed with osophagus and stomach cancer, she's has a ct and a PET scan we are waiting for MDT to look at this. In the meantime she had internal bleeding overnight last night and is currently in hospital awaiting investigations tomorrow...
Hey I check in on here when I can, I just wanted to come back on and do a post as I can see there’s lots of new people struggling with various things like weight loss, eating troubles and just been diagnosed/waiting for tests etc. I was 28 and diagnosed...
Im 40 years of age I've been back and forth to my GP with H.pylori treated 3 times. However I kept regurgitating my food each time I ate for a while. I decided to exaggerate my symptoms inorder to have a gastroscopy and colonoscopy. Even after this...
Scheduled for 10 July No idea what to take to hospital, any advice welcome, I’ve never stayed in hospital!
Tomorrow I attend pre op assessment, what actually happens here. This is for the key hole surgery. It's slowly hitting me today Yeah just had my breakfast mind over matter 2 sweet potatoes 2 eggs bowl of porridge glass of turmeric milk now having...
I was initially diagnosed with a GIST in the jejunum part of my small bowel in Jan 2024, and had this removed in Feb 2024. It is a wild type GIST with no known cure so surgery and ongoing monitoring was the plan. Sadly in November 2024 I received the...
Hi all, Just over 3 weeks ago, my 55yo husband had a total gastrectomy, splenectomy and part of the pancreas and part of the liver ended up needing to go too. Initially he was great, unfortunately he’s had multiple complications: anastomosis leak...
I was diagnosed with stomach cancer on March 1st 2025 and had 4 cycles of FLOT chemo before i had a total gastrectomy on August 15th 2025. I’ve been very poorly since the op but I’m slowly regaining strength. I’m having problems with dumping even though...
Hello I just found this forum today and have been interested reading everyone's battles with their cancer. My 61year old fit and well husband was diagnosed 2 weeks ago with satge 4 gastric cancer with peritoneal metastasis. We were told it couldnt...
Hi everyone. Devasted to have just joined this forum, having been a member of the lung cancer forum. My lovely mum was diagnosed with lung cancer last year and had what we thought was successful treatment (chemo and surgery) earlier this year. She has...
