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Just diagnosed: Surgery not an option, looking for hope
Colorectal Cancer | Last Active: Jan 14 7:20pm | Replies (80)Comment receiving replies
Sorry to hear about your case. You should try options, I'm sure you would have done that already. Were you diagnosed from CT scan in ER with abdominal pain or colonscopy from FIT test? Dont think they do PET scan in ER, do they?
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Colonoscopy last December. The doctor doing the test said the tumor was at the rectal/sigmoid junction and was typical cancer presentation. Biopsy confirmed it. I was admitted to the hospital a few days later with significant abdominal pain, and they did a PET scan which revealed stage IV - mets to liver and both lungs. I had a liver biopsy which was the rectal cancer and not a new cancer.
After 11 rounds of FOLFOX, the cancer was deemed stable, and I've been on maintenance chemo since. CTs have shown shrinking of the main tumor and some of the mets.