Cancer

Good luck.

I'm dreadfully sorry Mr Eboue. Nothing is more important than the health of our loved ones. Your sister has beaten it once, and she can do it again.

Well said Mr E and I'm very sorry to read your awful news, yes of course the first sign of trouble is blood in your urine and stools and go and get yourself checked out as soon as possible if you have either of those symptoms.

Some of us don't know how lucky we are at times Mr Eboue, Your sister beat it before and sincerely hope she does again,my dad who was given little chance 2 years ago has the small price of a bag for the rest of his days but given the advance in treatment he at least is still smoking his pipe and having his euro ew,best wishes to you and your sister.

plenty of help for people with cancer his GP or consultant will give him the information I am receiving treatment GL all

Bright red Blood in Stools usually points to Piles ,dark red is a worry as Slip says Docs either way  ,any Blood in urine Get to the Doctor ASAP DO NOT DELAY EVER , Bladder cancer is lethal , Catch it early you have a chance, 50 % of those diagnosed will be
Lucky to see another 10 years , if that .. 

Prob with Early stage cancers is there are very little signs  , Stomach cancer prob the Most Deadly  of the Lot Due to late

diagnosis it is very rarely discovered early stages Lost my father in Law to it nearly 3 year back , Had no signs till very Late on they gave him 3 months He last 8 .. Absolutely Dreadful ,was a very fit man

Went to see 1 of my best mates(a renowned racehorse artist) yesterday having just got out of hospital having had an op for stomach cancer took part of his stomach and his duodenal. actually looked remarkably well under the circumstances. a finer man/human being you could not wish to meet.
The b@stard of a disease took my mum and dad and my sister(3 out of 4 of us) has breast cancer. I feel im just waiting my turn.

Lung cancer is one that is hard to detect in its early stages, by the time you realise it's spread to other parts of the body and then you don't get long to live, literally weeks, at least my experience with a relative, mum stopped smoking 5 years aged 48, hopefully that'll add a few more years.

I always thought that stress plays a big part in people developing many cancers, or at least promotes the growth/spread. When you look back and think of all the little things you stressed over, all the things you had no control over whatsoever, all that build up, you have to ask yourself the question, what was the point, that could be the key, don't sweat the small stuff, personally I tried to limit negative/bad news filitering in by not watching so much of it, because bad news is the bread and butter of media stories and we live in a day and age of MASS media, toxic mix. Sometimes we have no idea how stressed we are until we go on holiday and come down from it, or we're put out of action through illness and are forced to rest for a few days.

This may sound very simplistic and doesn't apply to those with genetic issues of course, but I believe good diet, exercise and learning not to stress your body and mind out will go a long way imo, maintaining that consistency is difficult but that's the key. All the best.

Immuneotherapy is new form of treatmemt even really advanced cancers are adding years onto peoples lives,trouble is the nhs only use it for certain patients and certain cancers and costs around 45,000 per treament three months..My mum has incurable lung cancer,she has it in lungs,liver and lymphs from what i have read she probably wouldv'e been lucky to live 12 months,offered the immuneotherapy and the tumours reduced in size,but after a years treatment the tumours have just stayed stagnant..The nhs give you two years treatment then it stops,so come july it will be back to conventional treatments and probably cancers will be triggered to grow again,i will be paying for it if she wants to continue with it privately..

I saw my grandad dying from cancer,has haunted me for 30 years working class couple who had nothing but would do anything for anyone,i spent all my time round my grandads any opportinity to get away from my mum and dad..Don't think there's a month goes by i don't think about them both,still really upsets me now his last words to me were ''i've had it mate''while i was holding his hand and his eyes were rolling in back of his head from the morphine.I just ran out of the hospital screaming,you can't forget things like that and then you see your mum has it..I just hope she doesn't have to end up like that i couldn't see that allover again.

Yes Gigolo. Good luck to you and your mum.I was in a fortunate position(  had a very caring and understanding wife who was immense) i was able to take care and have mum come and live with us for the last 6 months of her life and give back some of the love and care that she had given throughout her life. She was an absolute pleasure to have live with us never moaned or grumbled once

One of my Aunts turned me onto this when I was diagnosed over six years ago & I'm sure it's a major reason I'm still here today -

https://www.canceractive.com/

I wish Mr Eboue's sister and all other suffers just the very best in beating it.

no disrespect casemoney but if you went and did something about it,you wernt one of them, that's the point I,m making if you eventually for whatever reason took steps your not one of them, that footballer was on bbc this morning about bowel cancer and getting applauded about raising the profile but the treatment,process,s involved, just entrenched my fears,thoughts of going to a gp, to compare a footballer who probably see,s a dr,physio,surgeon etc on a weekly ,daily basis to people who frightened to death of seeing ba gp,hospital etc is ridiculous,its like A  LIST celebs saying the same thing who,ll be going private,probably on chatting terms with their dr even friends with them,
the best I could pluck up the courage to do is give blood,stoolsamples for them to test for whatever they like did last year for prostrate but anything else is a no,no for me

Best wishes for a good prognosis pumphol, to be told you have cancer changes everything, and I speak from personal experience having had testicular cancer, which thankfully was caught in time. That was 18 years ago!.
However, my (late) wife was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and passed away 4 weeks later, aged just 57.
A truly vicious illness is cancer. It has so many forms, and the permutations for treatment are immense.
Best wishes to anyone suffering from it, and those who care for those with it too.

1st I pished a fair load of blood Most people who do that will say something to someone , I was going to a Funeral the day it happened  when I went down stairs I told my Mrs ,She Made me go the Docs ,The blood never re occurred Had I not been with her that Day , I may well Have Just passed it off , Strangely going to a funeral At least, saved my bladder , If not
my Life Got me two year check up soon, So far from out of the woods , after tumour was Removed Was given an 80 % chance
of the basterd returning If I get two years out of the way the Odds of a return are a lot less Likely ..

Ovarian absolute Evil ,Silent killer Sorry to hear John , I knew a Lady Diagnosed was gone within a Month ...There are
really no words other than Cancer destroys so many Lives and not only the ones it takes ..

Good luck Pump

Good news, let's hope it all continues to go well.

"Be Clear On Cancer"...

Someone should have told the doctor (female) who diagnosed my wife as  having Fibroids, and din't consider anything else!

Eighteen months later, it was found that she had two ovarian cysts, the size of Grapefruits!

Sorry to hear that Tinnotaton. Thank goodness you’ve got that early diagnosis.

Have you got someone to help you through the process? If ever you need someone to talk to, feel free to pop me a message.

Good luck.

Eboue/Tin - been fighting it for getting on close to 4 yrs now - 1st had probs when going to toilet passing loadsa blood - turns out it was bowel cancer - had op nov15 and had ileostomy bag fitted which was reversed March 17 - was stage 1 cos i acted quickly - anyway then got admitted for gallbladder surgery removal nov 17 after having been given the all clear just a mth earlier -on removal of gallbladder they found two lesions on my liver so i spent the early part of 2018 having chemo and beating sepsis - was a hero to nurses on ward cos i tipped em all Tiger Roll when back in hospital but then had major surgery again in October which resulted in me having anutha bag put on and a canny big scar as a reminder but im still here fighting so keep staying positive cos thats half the battle and its amazing what they can do nowadays and outta all the charities out there please throw a bit in any tin thrown at you re cancer cos it cud be you next and work they do is immense