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DiscussionStage 3 colon cancer: What's your experience?
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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.