Hi Melanie, it's all so overwhelming when we are first diagnosed! I cried when the nurse was going through the list of side effects that we maybe experience , but if it is unbearable to you, you tell… (View Post)

No Havant lost my hair,got a tiny bit thinner but hardly noticeable! The chemotherapy they give for bowel cancer doesn't affect your hair I find that amazing! I thought all chemotherapy made your hai… (View Post)

Me again, I should imagine you will hear from the hospital pretty quickly for your next appointment, I expect by post to see your oncologist, if you can try and take someone with you, friend or famil… (View Post)

I can't really say in your case but with mine they had to reduce the size of the tumour before surgery, this gives them more chance of getting all the cancer so I had chemotherapy first ,but everyone… (View Post)