Hi all, Thank you so much for this forum. I lurk mainly because most of my questions get answered through searching the forum. I finished my FolFox regime in February. However, I'm still having residual side effects: neuropathy in fingers and toes (I understand this can take up to a year, and also b...

Kim: I know this is way late since you posted, but I wanted to chime in and let you know that I also had both ovarian and colon ca dx, in reverse order from you. I just finished the 12 rounds of Folfox this month for stage 3c colon ca. Way back in 1994 I was dx'd at age 32 with Stage I ovarian ca--w...

Thank you for all your posts. This morning I had the MRI and PETscan, but there was no biopsy. One 6 mm lesion was identified on the liver but the larger areas seen on the original CT scan were eliminated as candidates. The PETscan report states "There is no metabolic evidence for malignancy. 6...

Thanks for all these helpful comments. You are a really great group of people! BTW my LFTs are normal and my CEA is <0.3 (not a good marker for me, it was <0.5 before surgery). I am expecting this to be a met--so far every test and appointment since surgery has been bad news. As I'm sure most of you...

Hello, I was recently diagnosed with CC. I had only one episode of bleeding that led me to primary dr. who scheduled a colonoscopy. Long story short: like many, I awoke from that procedure to "You have colon cancer." I had right hemicolectomy 3 weeks ago, went back to work after 1 week. La...