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Information on mucinous adenocarcinoma of the colon

Posted by elomda19 @elomda19, Feb 5, 2023

Good morning
My mother underwent surgery to remove cancer in the sigmoid colon, and after conducting a pathological analysis, it was found that it was stage III mucinous adenocarcinoma, because there were 2 affected lymph nodes.
Does anyone have information about this type of cancer?
treatment protocol
Thank you very much

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phylicaf22 | @phylicaf22 | Mar 31, 2023
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@lisag03

I was considered stage 2A. My tumor was removed with surgery and my oncologist presented me with two options. Watch and wait, or do 3 months of chemo. He said recent research showed that 3 months was as effective as the 6 that used to be the standard. He said chemo would lower my risk but left it up to me. I just wanted to do everything I possibly could to fight this and am the type of person to second guess myself. So I asked my oncologist what he would recommend to a family member and he said chemo so that’s what I did. I made it through almost half. I was worried at first when they recommended stopping, but I was very sick from it and my body couldn’t fight anything else that was going on. I have 100% faith in my oncologist and my team so felt confident following their recommendations.

I had my surgery at MD Anderson and my surgeon was Dr. Gimble. My oncologist is Dr Dragovich, head of oncology.

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Did you live near md Anderson or travel

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phylicaf22 | @phylicaf22 | Mar 31, 2023
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Did you live near md Anderson or travel

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What type of surgery did they do?

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lisag03 | @lisag03 | Mar 31, 2023
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@phylicaf22

What type of surgery did they do?

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Md Anderson is in the town that I live in. It’s connected to a local hospital. My surgery was a bowel resection (removal of part of the sigmoid which is where the tumor was), removal of right ovary and cecum (resected the cecum) removal of appendix. The tumor had made everything gravitate towards my right side which is why he removed other areas.

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phylicaf22 | @phylicaf22 | Mar 31, 2023
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@lisag03

Md Anderson is in the town that I live in. It’s connected to a local hospital. My surgery was a bowel resection (removal of part of the sigmoid which is where the tumor was), removal of right ovary and cecum (resected the cecum) removal of appendix. The tumor had made everything gravitate towards my right side which is why he removed other areas.

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Did they do that robictally through stomach or rectum . How are you doing now?

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lisag03 | @lisag03 | Mar 31, 2023

Because I had prior abdominal
Surgeries, I wasn’t a great candidate for laporoscopic and or robotic (not enough space to move around). Open surgery was done. They don’t go through the rectum because my tumor was in sigmoid

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