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    Experience of UTI 6 weeks following anterior resection and antibiotics causing nausea and diarrhoea. Anyone else go through this?

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    Cisplatin and capecitabine for stage 4 rectal cancer with liver metastasis

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    Not coping

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    Incidental finding of a liver NET - waiting to hear about the next steps

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