Good afternoon everyone,
My mum has an infiltrative Adenocarcinoma of the colon stage III, no surgery because of the age (87 year old) palliative care treatment, her Radiotherapy suspended because she has lumbago, lower back pain and she's been in bed for three weeks now waiting to be seen by oncologist to re-evaluate treatment. She is on Tramadol and Paracetamol, but she still got pain. I called a physiotherapist and told her the situation to see what she can do for her to easy the pain, and she said that it's quite possible that the pain comes from the tumor as it grows the pain can be referred to the lower back triggering a lumbago crisis. Her GP never said anything like that, he diagnosed her with lumbago.
Has anyone ever experienced bad lower back pain lumbago type with colon cancer. no surgery just palliative care. Now we have to go back to the oncologist to re-evaluate the situation because she cannot have radiotherapy again.
Last December she had a PET scan and they confirmed she didn't have metastasis, but now I am worried.
Thank you.