Congrats Trying. Was it the chemo that shrunk the tumor
Or you were doing something else.

That's good news. Congrats!!!.

I hope that turns out to be the case for my husband.
I am still hoping that common iliac lymph node enlargement is just reactive. If not, my husband's cancer will jump from stage II to stage IV.

Hi All, I have come across many threads about Stage 3 and Stage 4 survivors but don't see a lot about Stage 2. We are newly diagnosed as stage 2 rectal cancer and need some encouragement. Any stage 2 rectal cancer survivors that made through 5, 10, 15 years. Please come forward :) Thank you in advance

It doesn't sound anything too concerning. But since you have a family history of colon cancer you should get checked for your own piece of mind.
Good luck to you.

I can't give you any advice. But it sounds that they caught it very early. Good luck on whatever you decide

my husbands lliac nodes were all negative when they did the pathology on them after removal. They all lit up on the Pet scan. His cancer was in his cecum, and when they removed it along with his ascending colon, they removed all those nodes in the lliac chain that lit up on the pet scan at the same...

Punky44 wrote:I will keep praying too!

Thank you Punky 44. Prayers for your mom.

Thank you very much Punky44. According to his oncologist his staging will jump from Stage 2 to Stage 4 and he will need Avastin in addition to Folfox.

I am praying its not malignant....

pantufla wrote:For whatever it's worth, I am continually told that my husband's 13 mm central mesenteric lymph node is nothing.

Thanks for the reply. How are they able to determine that its benign. Did they biopsy the node?

Hi all, Anyone had any iliac lymph node enlargement showing on CT or MRI that ended up being just a reactive lymph node or benign. Its my first time posting here, although i was following this forum since my husband( 49 years old) was first diagnosed with Rectal Cancer(April 2018). Since then, he ha...