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297 Results found for "Colonoscopy"
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Kenny Murray, Strathcarron
...as it was my first test I thought I’d get it out of the way nice and quickly. A few weeks later in February I was told that I’d need to arrange a colonoscopy as something had come up on my screening test. To be honest, I didn’t think much of it. I’d not had any bowel cancer symptoms and I’m incredibly...
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Scottish endoscopy waiting times show improvement
...Scottish health Boards continue to breach the national standard that patients should be waiting no more than six weeks for a lower GI endoscopy or colonoscopy. This news follows the publication in March this year of the revised Scottish Endoscopy Action Plan, which is backed by a £6 million investment...
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Megan Green, Aberystwyth
...The GP just said it was IBS and because she had breast cancer six years ago, she was just paranoid. However, the GP eventually referred her for a colonoscopy. She actually had one three times but every time, they couldn’t find any sight of a tumour. The pain got so bad that she was rushed to A&E...
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Olivia Rowlands, St Andrews
...possibility and later find something more sinister, especially if the only missing symptom is that you are under 50! I was finally referred for a colonoscopy, which is where they found the tumour straight away. Six days later, I finished up being taken to hospital as I had contracted sepsis and was...
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Claire Adshead, Hemel Hempstead
...piles, but I could tell the difference between the two and with all those symptoms combined I knew I needed to see my GP urgently. I was sent for a colonoscopy just to rule anything out. I was a little worried, but I really didn’t think it would be cancer. My main worry was that it might be IBS or...
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Sian Rudd, Essex
...was rushed to A&E after having a large amount of bleeding from my bowel. I wasn’t diagnosed with bowel cancer until nine weeks later after a colonoscopy. I hadn’t had any other symptoms so bowel cancer didn’t cross my mind and at the hospital we were told the bleeding was possibly caused by haemorrhoids...
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Chris Kaye, Nottingham
...appointments were arranged, and it was confirmed as stage 4 bowel cancer. Within weeks Tracy was admitted to hospital with complications after a colonoscopy. She had some scans and these revealed her cancer was terminal, as it had already advanced so far. It was indescribably tough. Even a trip to...
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Alice Hamley, Sawbridgeworth
...blood test. This showed me to be anaemic, and this was that final symptom that put me on their fast track for bowel cancer. Within 2 weeks I had a colonoscopy, where I had several small polyps removed, as well as a very large one. The consultant was really pleased that he’d managed to remove it and...
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Alison Lattimer, Newcastle
...and was unable to digest food easily. Doctors thought I had IBS and to treat the symptoms with diet. I was diagnosed with the condition through a colonoscopy with follow up MRI and CT scans. I then had to have bowel surgery. The growth of small and large bowel polyps I had at the time were so large...
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Tim Cresswell, Ilfracombe
...The consultant knew without the need for any sort of biopsy, he could obviously tell just by looking at the photos he'd taken whilst performing the colonoscopy. It was now Friday 21 June. An MRI scan had been arranged for me on Monday 8 July. We met with the consultant Mr Cartmell a few days later...
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Driving a new approach to delivering endoscopy services in Wales
...increase in screening uptake of up to 10%, simply because the test is easier to carry out. This means more people will immediately be referred for a colonoscopy. It is understood that the Welsh Government expects Bowel Screening Wales to have reduced the screening age to 50 and also increase the sensitivity...
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Jamie Temple, Newcastle
...bowel cancer and I would likely require a permanent colostomy bag. Of all days they told me this, it was the day before I was scheduled for another colonoscopy; so lucky me. When I first got diagnosed I was worried about the stigma of having bowel cancer and a colostomy, especially as a girl of my...
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Almost half of people living in Wales ignore the life-saving bowel screening test
...country 21,700 people living in the country received a positive result, and were invited to their local hospital for further tests 18,200 people had a colonoscopy to look inside their bowel, of which 10,000 polyps were removed 2,200 people were told they had bowel cancer Lowri Griffiths, Head of Wales...
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Every beard tells a story
...to head back to the GP. I insisted on a referral letter to a colorectal surgeon, and so the journey started from appointment, to examination, to colonoscopy and finally, to diagnosis. I was diagnosed with bowel cancer and a tumour in a very tricky place that resulted in an Abdomino-perineal Resection...
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Jon Green, Desborough
...comments that this looked like cancer and a biopsy was taken. From the future looking rosy, the rug had been pulled out from under me. I had a full colonoscopy a few weeks after this sigmoidoscopy. Further tests confirmed cancer and I had to have one third of my bowel removed. My surgeon confirmed...
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Bela Sanches, Glasgow
...and tried to reassure me, because I was young, healthy, fit and had no family history of bowel cancer. It took around a month and a half to get my colonoscopy, where they found a large polyp that looked like cancer and other small polyps, followed by a CT and MRI scan. This confirmed I had locally...
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Why Matt's taking part in Decembeard
...adamant because not only had a work college been diagnosed earlier in the year, my father had also been diagnosed a few years ago. I was referred for a colonoscopy. Even on the day of the examination, consultants were hoping that this would be a routine check-up. But when you hear the clinical staff...
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In support of my wife Kate
...down, and slightly breathless. She visited the local GP who ran some blood tests and concluded that she was anemic. This led to an endoscopy and colonoscopy which found a cancerous growth in her bowel. Kate has had a CT scan and is going into surgery on 4 December to have the growth removed along with...
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Anisha Patel, Surrey
...diagnostic possibilities, given my age and lack of risk factors, but felt I definitely needed to be checked further. On September 21 2018, the day of my colonoscopy, I will never forget seeing the cancer on the screen, presented in high definition in all its glory. The room fell silent, and my world...
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Can aspirin and fish oil reduce risk of bowel cancer? – results from the seAFOod trial
...measured the number of bowel polyps (non-cancerous growths that can turn into cancer) as a marker of cancer risk. Patients, who had just undergone a colonoscopy (where a camera is used to look inside the bowel) and had several polyps removed, were randomly assigned to receive one of the following...