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Stage 3 colon cancer: What's your experience?

Colorectal Cancer | Last Active: Sep 5, 2023 | Replies (52)

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@drjohna

My journey started one year ago. I was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer at that time. I had surgery and 3 lymph nodes were positive. I had 6 months chemo with folfox. According to my oncologist. Your rate of cure rate with out chemo is 60 percent. With Chemo its 85 percent. I would not risk it without doing chemo. Chemo is not fun but I am happy to say I am done with it. My year anniversary scope was normal. BTW I am also a doctor and this has been the most humbling experience of my life.

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Good to hear that your treatment has been a success. I'm in my final chemo cycle of 4 x 3 week cycles having had one positive lymph node out of 23 removed. Definitely not fun having an infusion of Oxaliplatin on day 1 followed by two weeks of Xeloda (Capecitabine) but there's been a regular pattern of a tough first week (mainly constipation and tiredness) an easier second and an almost normal third with no pills. My oncologist also gave a 60% cure rate without chemo but improving to 75% with chemo. That persuaded me it was worth a try - see My Journey on this forum for more details.