Thank you Stewsbetty. I am so happy to hear that almost all of your lymph node metastasis are gone. I pray that the one left is no longer cancerous as well. It is just so difficult not to know and if the scan is clean, then to have to keep worrying about it. I just really wish we had an answer when ...

My husband was diagnosed with Stage 3C rectosigmoid cancer in November of 2018. His tumor was 10.7cm x 10.2cm in greatest dimension. He had a low anterior resection and a loop ileostomy. The day after Christmas, he began chemotherapy(Folfox) and he finished his 12th and final round today. Yay! He wi...

Thanks for your reply. With my husband, his distant lymph nodes were inflamed and were hyper metabolic previous to him having the tumor removed and ileostomy etc... Therefore, his couldn’t be inflammation from surgery, but we were told it could be from the tumor just being there and causing inflamed...

Thank you WarriorSpouse. I will definitely ask his oncologist for genetic testing. We have 2 boys ages 13 and 15. We have already been told to be sure they start having colonoscopies at age 25. I appreciate the info on the other treatments as well. I will be sure to look into them as needed. Last ch...

Has anyone had distant lymph nodes show up on their CT and PET scans that were enlarged and then they turned out to just be inflammation from the tumor and negative for cancer? My DH had some distant nodes show up on his scans that they were unable to biopsy during surgery and now we are waiting to ...

Hi boxhill, I do have his password for the online portal and have looked at his reports and tests. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen anything on KRAS, dMMR, or BRAF, but I’ll double check the pathology report in case I missed it. One good thing is that we finally have some clarification on the lymph nod...

In response to your question boxhill, my husband has not been genetically tested yet. The problem is that my husband doesn’t want to research, go through the reports, look at blood levels, his PET scan and then ask questions etc... There’s a few reasons for that, one is that he is not the type to lo...

Thank you to all of you that have responded so far. I really appreciate your concern and input. Thank you to WarriorSpouse and rp1954 for the mentioning of Olymphian. I saw a few posts under that when I was browsing the site. Now I need to see about looking in to posting questions there. I am also g...

Hi! This is my first time posting. My husband was diagnosed with Colon Cancer this past November. Currently it’s stage 3c. His tumor also invaded the back of his bladder and he had 2 positive lymph nodes out of 59. He had surgery to remove the tumor and about 1/3 of his bladder. He had clear margins...