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Brother diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer

Colorectal Cancer | Last Active: Jul 25 2:14pm | Replies (47)

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@colleenyoung

@percherondad, you're so right. Everyone reacts differently to chemo and different regimens will have different side effects. Breaks can help.

I also agree with your wise statement "Everything works but nothing works all the time."

A burning question based on your username. Do you have Percherons? Were you originally diagnosed with stage 4 or did cancer return metastasized?

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I owned a beautiful Percheron mare for many years, thus my screen name. I had no symptoms of anything in 2021. I developed what my doctor thought was diverticulosis I took an antibiotic, and it went away, but my primary with whom I am very friendly said I don’t like the fact that you’ve never had diverticulosis before and you suddenly have it at your age I want you to have a. Colonoscopy. I went, and when I woke up and the doctor said he couldn’t get through with the camera that there was something blocking it, and he tattooed as far as he could go. Mind you I had already had a CT scan that showed a spot on my liver but didn’t show anything in my colon. To make a long story short I had a tumor the size of a baseball. I also had a CEA of over 300. The guy who removed the tumor in my colon did a really great job and resection to me. I had eight sessions of chemo I had a liver surgery at upstate in Syracuse New York that was very successful and then I developed some nodules in my lungs. I had another 12 sessions of chemo and my CEA, which was over 300 before my colon. Surgery is now 3.1. I am on xeloda As a maintenance drug and I seem to be OK. Of course every scan makes you bite your fingernails but generally I’m in really good health.