Hi my name is Michelle but Shelly for short ,last November I was diagnosed with anal cancer , I’m 58 have six children and 12 grandchildren, I already have a stoma bag for 3 years but since the day I had it put on I’ve had problems, I have a fistula and I was told I needed a stoma bag for my fistula to heal I was having bowel movement from my virgina, it was nasty so stoma was meant to be temporary, but I was not healing and my condition was getting worse plus I have several other medical issues, my consultant gave me a endoscopy and a couple of weeks passed I was still in hospital and my consultant came in on his day off that’s when I knew that something was wrong he sat down and told me the biopsies came back as cancer and it was a fast growing cancer. I met my oncologist who wanted me to have surgery as she said that was the best thing with case, she actually said chemo and radiotherapy was rite for me that surgery was but surgeons refused to operate on me due to all my other conditions, so I had 5 weeks of chemo radiotherapy which had to have half strength chemo coz of my platelets,im waiting on results but all symptoms are still their and the lump what will happen if my cancer is still their I can’t get no one to explain I think I’m going crazy someone please reply