My wife was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer with severe met to the liver in December. One opinion was that there was little reason to do a colon resection at this late stage and for her to go home and get her affairs in order.

A second opinion from a well-known colon surgeon resulted in surgery within 48hrs where 30” of small and large intestine and an ovary were removed due to a large tumor 10cm from her rectum that had come into contact with other organs.

Surgery was very successful with the colon surgeon stating that he was confident he had removed all of the cancer with a curative approach. A colostomy is required today while she battles the liver cancer but may he reversed at some point after the dust settles.

Same story with her liver. “Inoperable tumors so go home as be with your family”.
A second opinion from a leading liver surgeon resulted in an aggressive chemo regiment that he believes will reduce the tumors to a curative operable size.

Hope was a tremendous drug in our case where we went from total despair to tackling this like a work project. So far so good.