New member here. Diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer in Nov 14. Forgive me if I don't have all of the nomenclature down. Trying to understand it all. Have sigmoid colon tumor, as well as cancer in one lymph node, & 3 liver spots. Have undergone 6 rounds of chemo with PET scan last week. Good news is that 2 of 3 liver spots are gone and the other one reduced by 60%. Also, the lymph node & colon tumor also dramatically reduced by over half. Very excited that the chemo was working.
One bad note was there is a 1.5 cm NEW spot on either my peritoneum or in my spleen. Will probably have to do an MRI to determine exact location. My oncologist is working with my surgical team to determine the next action. I was told that those areas are difficult for chemo treatments to reach.
So my question is: Has anybody else have something similar happen to them? If so, what was your next step? Scary that treatments were working so well, but during that time, something else began to grow.
Thanks for you advice.