my mum is having her reversal mid august and she is worrying about what to expect after,she had all the left side of her bowel removed and most of rectum,i would like to hear your experiances please,thank you....

due to my mum having two tumors she had about half of her bowel removed(left side),she is now trying to find out how life is gona be after her bag is removed,how close to normal can your bowel go back too after?i know it will take some time.any experiances of people with that much bowel removed plea...

Your Mum is 6 days ahead of me. I had surgery on May 23rd. I believe I have stage 1. I'm scheduled to meet surgeon on July 7th, to discuss Ileosotmy reversal. I was wondering How soon it is wise to have it. I think the dr plans to look inside first to see how resection has healed, Not sure how that...

Effie, I think I know how you and your mom feel I have pretty similar situation, but only one large tumor 6.5 cm In rectum/sigmoid . Great news and a relief, to find out it had not got farther in and lymphs Involved. I be interested to find out more about your moms, and others Ileosotmy reversals, ...

Wonderful news! I was diagnosed as stage 2a in 2014 with a T3 tumor. No chemo and I have been in remission since surgery. thats great..we are all so happy we expected it to be much worse as she had 2 tumors the one was 4cm which is big and it was low in rectum so we where shocked...!!! :D :D :D she...

my mums biopsy results from her surgery are ready...no possitive nodes the one tumor was t3 the other was t2 so i guess stage 2a right?And the best news is she dont need chemo...!!

.Doctor said its something that often happens when they go down so far due to bruising of the bladder.Has anybody experianced this? :? :? :? Not quite, I did not need a catheter, butt I could not tell if I had to go to pee or not. It was a weird feeling. I made a point of going to the bathroom ever...

my mum had her surgery 2 weeks ago she had the left side of bowel removed and most of the rectum,post op her bladder wasnt emptying properly so she had to come home with a catheter for 4 weeks.Doctor said its something that often happens when they go down so far due to bruising of the bladder.Has an...

does anyone know why the survival rates for stage 2 colorectal cancer are lower than stage 3?it doesn't make any sence...