Hi all,

about 2 years ago my dad was diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer. He had radio and chemo were the tumour shrunk greatly and then had surgery to remove it. He had one last round of chemo to 'air on the side of caution' (his oncologists words) - his oncologist didn't believe it to be essential but my dad didn't want to take the risk and had the last round of it anyway.

Since then, life has resumed back to normal but recently he noticed he had some rectal bleeding again. He saw a consultant who did a colonoscopy and said he belived it to be scar tissue from my dads previous surgery and in his opinion, he didn't believe my dad had anything to worry about. My dad recieved a call yesterday telling him he has an MRI scan tomorrow afternoon which has now concerned me greatly. Are they doing an MRI scan because they believe that actually the cancer has returned or are they doing one simply just to check the scar tissue etc? 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,

Alice xx