u/Beneficial-Thought82

Hi. All.

Is there any one here who has had a pet scan to get a final diagnosis.

I am interested to understand what the meaning of this scan is if the MRI was inconclusive?

Anyone here have recommendations for weight gain? Or help with muscle weakness?

Hello.

My father has had a couple of bouts of cancer over the years, all well recovered from but I think it’s all happening again.

He has cirrhosis of the liver and he was sent for an unscheduled MRI scan. His bloods however don’t really highlight anything majorly wrong and now needs a PET scan for confirmation.

For anyone with liver cancer or had a scare of liver cancer is this something they do routinely just to make sure?

My father is 72.

Hello.

My father has had cirrhosis for what I believe is for sometime.

He’s on 6 monthly checks and recently has had mri which showed up some blurry marks which now require further testing.

His bloods seem to be fine but I guess they want to double check incase it has turned to cancer.

Is this something that is normal for folks with cirrhosis and further testing. The blood results seem promising I suppose?

Hello.

I hope you are all well.

My father had a bowel resection back in 2018 after being diagnosed with appendix cancer. The tumour had spread onto his peritoneal lining also so they took quite a bit of his bowel large and small bowel away. They took a third of his large bowel and quite a bit of small bowel but managed to escape a colostomy bag.

My question to anyone who has had a similar operation or is in a similar situation how are they doing?

Hes understandably lost some weight, i understand that is quite normal over the years. Hes not had any reoccurrence and has been discharged but I wondered if there was anything we can recommend to help keep his weight up.

He gets frequent blood tests for other things and is ok. He is in his 70’s now.

He is careful with alcohol intake now and this has dropped significantly and is obsessed with keeping fit.

Perhaps it’s just my over thinking mind but wondered other peoples experiences with this condition.

He has had a few instances where he’s had bowel blockages from eating specific foods and not drinking enough water but he understands his triggers now.