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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...
Support Group: Colorectal Cancer
Last active: Aug 2, 2024
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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...
Support Group: Colorectal Cancer
Last active: Sep 11 8:16am
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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...
Support Group: Colorectal Cancer
Last active: Feb 11, 2024
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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...
Support Group: Colorectal Cancer
Last active: Apr 18, 2024
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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...
Support Group: Colorectal Cancer
Last active: Jul 30, 2024
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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...
Support Group: Colorectal Cancer
Last active: Jun 5 12:29pm
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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 +...
Support Group: Colorectal Cancer
Last active: Oct 25, 2023
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Discharged from being followed for cancer
Has anyone else been discharged from being followed for anal cancer? I was diagnosed 7 years ago and ended treatment a few months later -...
Support Group: Colorectal Cancer
Last active: Sep 8, 2024
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Rectal pain and diet post right hemicolectomy
I had a right hemicolectomy in mid March not due to cancer but rather a negative outcome of a colonoscopy. I was in perfect health...
Support Group: Colorectal Cancer
Last active: Mar 28, 2022
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Rectovaginal fistula after rectal radiotherapy
Last December I had a transanal resection of a polyp clase to the anus and sphyncter. Biopsy revealed positive margins for adenocarcinoma. So I had...
Support Group: Colorectal Cancer
Last active: Mar 12, 2024