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Living with long-term bowel side effects post anal cancer treatment

Colorectal Cancer | Last Active: Feb 11 2:13pm | Replies (85)
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Hello @orend5 and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. I see that you have undergone the NIGRO protocol. I understand that this is a pre-surgery treatment. Have you had surgery, or is it planned for the future?

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orend5 | @orend5 | Feb 11 8:13am

@hopeful33250 Hi there. The protocol I underwent was not pre-surgery. As I mentioned above, my cancer was fairly early stage, with no lymp node or metastatic involvement. I did have surgery to excise the T2 tumor prior to the chemoradiation.

I suppose it depends on the staging and extent of the tumor whether NIGRO is followed pre- or post-surgery. My treatment was 18 years ago, so perhaps there have been changes to the protocol?

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