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Adenocarcinoma - just diagnosed
Colorectal Cancer | Last Active: Apr 26 9:22am | Replies (75)Comment receiving replies
cancer is on the inside of the anal sphincter proton treatment. so hope that is better than the mass old way of treating And how can one stop Xeloda if you want to kill the cancer cells Assume one has to bite the bullet and get through the treatments of the drugs so it can kill the cancer cells Are you free or just in remission
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I was first programmed for 25 radiotherapy sessions with 3 pills of Xeloda on the days of the sessions. Then they added three more sessions. Actually, it was around session 23 and 24 that I felt the paresthesia. I called the oncologist and he's the one who told me to stop taking the Xeloda; he said it had been enough. RT ended mid March 2023.
All my MRI and CT Scans afterwards were clean.
At the end of November, a colonoscopy showed a pre-cancerous adenoma growing close to the radiated area.
I had a recto-vaginal fistula that had formed in the midst of the necrotized rectal tissue extremely close to the sphincter and I had the adenoma facing it. It was very complicated to fix the fistula and after much debate and consultations with a full team of experts, we decided on a TME (total resection of the rectum, mesorectum and sygmoid) in the form of a pullthrough to avoid a temporary ostomy. The biopsy of the resected tissues and organs was negative and the adenoma was downgraded to having low displasia.
So, I'm cancer free. There still will be check ups, but there will be time for that.