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@jimwaters59, good news on the cancer-free for 10 years and counting. I'm tagging members like @lillyann...
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Hi @jerry987, I moved your question to the Colorectal Cancer support group where you can more...
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I’m sorry for your brother’s diagnosis. It’s devastating to have a family member get this news....
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I believe it’s standard practice with a physicians’s order to have a colonoscopy one year after...
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More Young People Than Ever Will Get Colorectal Cancer This Year
I'm gifting this article from the New York Times, so you can use it to raise awareness and encourage your relatives, friends, and acquaintances to...
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Rectal tumor pain from chemo?
Hey everyone thanks for allowing me to join the group! I got a question that I could use some insight on My father was diagnosed...
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Chemo or surgery: decision point, seeking perspectives
Hi friends, On October 19, I had my first colonoscopy following symptoms of bright red blood in stools that had appeared over the summer. A...
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Rectal tumor, constipation, bowel impaction (partial), burning pain
Hello everyone, I am writing this to ask for help for my elderly mom with a never ending burning pain in her bowels for 3...
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Just diagnosed: Surgery not an option, looking for hope
Went in for my first colonoscopy in December, F age 58. Had negative Cologuards for the last 4 or 5 years. My PCP gave me...
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Options other than transection of rectum
My husband recently had colonoscopy to remove a large polyp from rectum. 6 cm . It contained a cancer tumour that grew 3 cm into...
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Rectal Radiation and Nutrition: Anyone have plant-based diet advice?
Hello, Long story short, I had a large polyp discovered and resected from the rectum at age 41 last year. After finding 2 cancers (main...
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Persisting abdominal pain, bloating, gas, clustering
Hi everyone- My husband was diagnosed with T2N0 rectal cancer in late 2017. He underwent chemo and radiation treatment prior to his robotic taTME TATA...
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Lingering side effects over 2 months after radiation completion
I have colorectal cancer, & completed chemo, then radiation treatment. The rectal pain & vaginitis from radiation persists over 2 months after treatment ended. My...
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Targeted Therapy (tucatinib & trastuzumab) for stage 4 CRC
My cancer had spread to liver and a lesion was found in lung. Standard folfox 6 cycles , two liver resections and then Radiation +...
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