So what is a colonoscopy all about?
If you’ve managed to survive all the radiotherapy, chemo, surgery and the CT or MRI scanning that...
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Tag: James Cook University Hospital
Helping cancer patients through the dark patches
More and more people are surviving cancer, but as I mentioned in my last blog ‘You are not alone: life after cancer’ that can just mean another chapter opening – and in this ‘Cancer-Talk’ I want to shine the spotlight on...
Read MoreYou are not alone: life after cancer
Coping with life after cancer can be tougher than you’d think. But you no longer have to face it alone. For the medical world now realises that many people often struggle to cope with the emotional fallout of cancer, whether...
Read MoreHandling the end of cancer treatment!
I never believed anyone might actually miss the routine that takes over your life during a year of cancer treatment. But strange as it might seem, there is something reassuring about the pattern of regular hospital visits,...
Read MoreHandling your cancer operation and the after effects!
This has proved the hardest blog to write in my ‘Cancer-talk’ series because many of the things I thought would happen with my bowel cancer operation didn’t and I’m still in a twirl from the after effects a month later, which...
Read MoreGetting prepared in mind & body for your cancer op!
When I left you last time, I was preparing to go into James Cook University Hospital for my bowel cancer operation following radiotherapy and chemo treatment. Now, I am out the other side – having been allowed home after only...
Read MoreWhy April is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month
When you’ve just found out you’ve got bowel cancer, I’m not sure you really want to be told that it is the UK’s second biggest cancer killer and that someone dies from it every half an hour. But that’s the startling fact and why...
Read MoreBeating bowel cancer – introducing ‘Cancer-talk’
You are never quite prepared for being told you have cancer. There is still, what shall we call it, a stigma surrounding cancer that makes it difficult to talk about. Even some medical people struggle when talking about it to...
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