Hey Trevor, sorry you are going through this! I had a 4 cm ascending colon tumor with a ton of large bulky lymph nodes and a liver met. I ended up having pre-op chemo to shrink everything down before surgery. Had to have an open resection to get it all out, and I did have my ileocecal valve removed,...

Thanks for posting! It's really great to hear that she is NED and doing well, hoping for the same once I'm done another 5 cycles of chemo!

I won’t have a choice about my surgeon at this point, but everyone I’ve mentioned his name to has said he’s skilled and he’s the head of the quality control committee for general surgeons in our area. One oncologist called him a “cowboy” hopefully that’s good? I need an aggressive surgery for a shot...

Only a small tip but for the skin cracks I tried nexcare skin crack care- it’s like a liquid bandaid that you can put on the cracks. One on my thumb that was really bothering me healed within two days after a couple of weeks of struggling with it. I also had trouble with diarrhea on xeloda, found I ...

34 year old on pre-op folfox + panitumumab for stage 4, surgery to be scheduled in a couple of months. Going to have ascending colon resection (no stoma), small liver resection and a pretty massive lymph node dissection (many positive nodes around the ascending colon and retroperitoneal). Any tips o...