# OnCo record living-with-a-stoma-bowel-cancer (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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<https://onco.cc/terms/living-with-a-stoma-bowel-cancer/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "living-with-a-stoma-bowel-cancer" ;
  schema:name "Living with a stoma after bowel cancer surgery"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "stoma care"@en, "colostomy care"@en, "ileostomy care"@en, "stoma bag"@en, "stoma reversal"@en, "parastomal hernia"@en ;
  schema:description "A colostomy or ileostomy after bowel cancer surgery may be temporary, to let a join heal, or permanent. Recovery takes about eight weeks, bags come as one-piece or two-piece and drainable or closed, permanent colostomy supplies are free on prescription, and the emergencies to know are a blockage (nothing coming out, cramps, sickness, swelling), heavy bleeding, dehydration and signs of infection."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/living-with-a-stoma-bowel-cancer/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-24"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/about-bowel-cancer/treatment/surgery/stomas/>, <https://www.nhs.uk/tests-and-treatments/colostomy/what-is-a-colostomy/>, <https://www.nhs.uk/tests-and-treatments/colostomy/recovery-and-lifestyle-changes-after-a-colostomy/>, <https://www.nhs.uk/tests-and-treatments/colostomy/complications-of-a-colostomy/>, <https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/bowel-cancer/living-with/having-stoma>, <https://www.colostomyuk.org/information/managing-your-colostomy/>, <https://www.colostomyuk.org/information/prescriptions/>, <https://www.colostomyuk.org/information/returning-to-work-after-stoma-surgery/>, <https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng151/chapter/Recommendations> ;
  onco:tag "gi", "colorectal" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/stoma/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/colectomy/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/total-mesorectal-excision/> .