Thank you so much for your replies! Open heart surgery is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday of next week, but we are meeting with the surgeon on Monday to see if there’s any reason he’s not a candidate/any downfalls for endovascular surgery to remove the aneurysm since the healing time is reduced,...

Hi All, Just wondering if anyone has had experience with their adjuvant chemo being delayed after surgery? Husband had surgery on Dec 2 2020 to remove 8cm tumour in descending colon. Had a bit of a delay with follow up pathology due to Christmas break...but were told on Jan 4 2021 0/25 lymph nodes a...

Thank you for sharing! I very much appreciate your outlook on your situation. My husband is also 38 and recently diagnosed. He has his left hemicolectomy tomorrow and I have been in the same boat as you trying to find any stories that match ours and this update is so nice to read.

Sorry I did mean laparoscopic left hemicolectomy, still getting used to the terms and abbreviations.

CT scans showed no spread to other organs, so next step is surgery and we’ll see where we are from there!

Thanks everyone for the kind words and reassurance.

Thank you! I guess I meant that I’m worried the weight loss automatically means a poorer prognosis, but trying not to get ahead of myself

Hi All, Thank you so much for this wonderful resource of information and individual stories - it is a light in the darkness during these times! My husband, 38, had a colonoscopy last week where they found a mass they could not get the scope past in his descending colon near his splenic flexure. It w...