Category: Coping with Cancer

My bowel cancer surgery was on 28th October 2014. This was seven months after I learned I had cancer, on the colonoscopy table, on 21st

Complications of liver surgery are uncommon, but they happen. My liver surgery had gone so smoothly that I was home after only two nights in

Liver surgery for bowel cancer is a strange concept to get your head around. Stranger, still, in my case, was the decision to do the

On top of the side effects of chemotherapy, there can be complications. The complications of chemotherapy can be both intense and unpleasant. Not everyone has

My first experience with chemotherapy was far easier than I’d been expecting. I had my intravenous drip, felt some mild nausea and experimented with the

Having received my diagnosis, I was told that I’d be starting chemotherapy for bowel cancer quite quickly. And quite quickly, it was. I was in

To be able to answer the question, ‘What is bowel cancer?’, it’s vital to first know the answers to: What is cancer?, and; What is

Please note that bowel cancer survival rates improve all the time and that this was written in April 2018, and refers to my experiences in

Being told you’ve got bowel cancer is a very difficult thing. And even more difficult to take in. Unfortunately, it’s the beginning of a process,

I said in my previous post that I’d discuss bowel cancer symptoms, because it’s so important to spot them early and do something about it.

According to Cancer Research UK, about 1 in 14 men and 1 in 19 women will be diagnosed with Bowel Cancer during their lifetime. For