Thank you all so much for your replies. My onc took me off chemo for awhile as my side effects were becoming more severe. The vaso-spasms sound exactly like what I was going through with my chest pain. Glad to hear there wasn't any long term damage from it!

Hi Isabel, I am 32 years old and was diagnosed with Stage 3 colon cancer after they discovered a 6cm tumor in my transverse colon and 6 other 'soon to be' carcinoma polyps in various other areas of my colon. After the surgery, they found that 2 out of 55 lymph nodes had been infected. AI had genetic...

Hello, Just curious if anyone has had a bad reaction to 5FU like I have? When I was in the pump for the first two rounds of FOLFOX chemo, I experienced severe chest pressure and was sent to the ER because they thought I was going to have a heart attack. I have since switched to Xeloda and then take ...

Hello again....this is my second post to this forum since finding out I had colon cancer 3 1/2 weeks ago. I am a 32 year old mother of 2 and had a 6 cm cancerous tumor in my sigmoid colon, and 5 polyps of the 'cancerous type' in my ascending, transverse, and descending colon. One of the polyps in my...

Thank you all so far for the comments - I am so grateful to have found this message board! In addition to the 6cm cancer they found in my sigmoid, they also removed 5 polyps from my descending and transverse colon. I am 32 years old and have 0 family history of colon cancer or any other type of canc...

Hello, I'm a young mom to two young children and just found out the results from pathology that I have colon cancer. I go in for my CT scans tomorrow and then consult with a colon-rectal surgeon the next day. I was told by my gastroenterologist that they might want to remove my entire colon as I had...