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291 Results found for "Colonoscopy"
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Mel's eight year old grandson raises over £3,300 with mini marathon
...visiting the toilet. After two or three weeks, I decided to go to the doctor. They referred me straight away and within two weeks I was having a colonoscopy and biopsies, which confirmed it was cancer. Scans followed, as well as a course of radiotherapy and chemotherapy in tablet form, before an operation...
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Emily Meunier, Fife
...refused water or IV fluids, even though I had been recognised as dehydrated. Only to be sent home with laxatives and a recommendation for an 'urgent' colonoscopy as an outpatient which would be an expected 12 week wait. The scan revealed a tumour in my sigmoid colon and the next day I had emergency...
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Laura Dakin, Kent
...have emergency surgery to remove the right side of my bowel. I am due to start chemotherapy soon which will last for three months and am having a colonoscopy in two weeks. I have a three year old son so finding out I have bowel cancer has been a massive shock. People think you can’t have it at my age...
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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 abdominoperineal resection...
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Duncan Gray, Devon
...was eight weeks later. At the appointment it was suggested that I had hemorrhoids (piles) but just to be on the safe side they referred me for a colonoscopy. I had to wait another eight weeks and it was during this procedure they found a cancerous tumour. They explained that it was cancer but they...
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Michelle Dorrian, Essex
...was experiencing anemia, which was detected when I went to give blood. I went to my GP many times, had tablets and infusions and was referred for a colonoscopy, nothing was detected and the doctor thought it was irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), therefore the treatment for anemia continued. I later found...
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Melissa Boon, Berkshire
...be seen privately. I was seen three days later. Initial examination showed a large polyp, highly likely to be cancerous. I was then referred for a colonoscopy four days later, which is when I was diagnosed. Without much time to process the news, my husband and I made plans with family to help support...
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82 year old Bob raises over £800
...delayed much longer, it may have been a different story. In 2016 I had no obvious symptoms again but the cancer was found during a routine follow up colonoscopy. I have had wonderful treatment the whole way through and count myself a lucky man. I don’t really think that what I did - walking four miles...
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Jillian's online birthday fundraiser
...I'm still waiting for the full post-surgery pathology results. For me, it's all happened really quickly. I went to my GP on 24 February and had a colonoscopy, scans, diagnosis and surgery all within two months! It's been great that the NHS has managed to organise all of this in the current circumstances...
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Sarah Bates, Teddington
...few months the bleeding was continuing and I was having loose bowel movements. So I went back to see the colorectal surgeon. He referred me for a colonoscopy, which I had on 22nd December 2016. Immediately after the test was done, I was told it looked like I might have cancer and was asked to come...
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Why Kenny Murray is the face of Challenge 2020
...was my first test I thought I’d get it out of the way nice and quickly. A few weeks later in February 2019 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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Nina Hemsley, Hailsham
...with things. But then I started to experience a lot more pain in my stomach. I went to another hospital and there the team quickly sent me for a colonoscopy. The test showed that I had a mass in my bowel, which was diagnosed as bowel cancer. My cancer diagnosis tuned my whole world on its head. I went...
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Mark grew a beard to support his parents who have bowel cancer
...London has been offered, which could offer my mum more time if successful. During this time, my dad, Neville, who was 59 at the time, went for a colonoscopy in June 2018. He had three small polyps tested, and we were left in total shock when one of these came back as cancerous. The exact same cancer...
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Why David grew a beard for Decembeard
...December. He shares with us why supporting the charity is so important to him. On the day of my wife's 38th birthday, 1 February 2017, I went for a colonoscopy. I'd noticed bleeding when I went to the toilet on and off for a few months. I wasn't too concerned, I was young and didn't have any other...
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Colin and Elizabeth transformed their lifestyles after just three months
...both haven’t been tested positively for a genetic condition yet, we’re sure it has to be something in our genes. Earlier this year after having our colonoscopy, we received a call from Bowel Cancer UK about their BeWEL project. It provides people with a volunteer coach who supports them with positive...
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New report outlines variations in treatment and care for bowel disease
...positions in their departments It's anticipated that nearly 20,000 procedures will be required each week in the UK to meet an increase in demand for colonoscopy services The new report outlines key resources required: Pathology Approximately two histopathologists are required per 500,000 of the population...
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Jackie Hill, Wales
...bowel cancer who have become great friends.I had regular follow up appointments, initially thee monthly then six monthly and now yearly. I have a colonoscopy every three years mainly because my brother was found to have polyps in his bowel, which has confirmed a family link. My five year scan was in...
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Charlie Thomas, Milton Keynes
...when it reached a peak of 8-10 times a day. Fortunately my GP referred me to see a colorectal consultant to ‘rule out anything serious’. I had a colonoscopy and during that procedure a ‘mass’ was identified. The consultant explained this was a tumour and likely to be cancer. I didn’t really take this...
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70th Anniversary Present to the NHS
...an early diagnosis as it can detect more early stage cancers than the current screening test. However FIT will require many more people to have a colonoscopy. With many endoscopy units already struggling to cope with referrals, successful roll out of this life saving test will be hindered if investment...
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A great way to end this difficult journey
...dramatic turn for the worse in the 2 weeks before the scan). We rang again the next day and then I was immediately admitted to hospital. I had a colonoscopy the morning after and was then told it was bowel cancer which had spread into the upper intestine, the bladder and the ovaries. After a MDT meeting...