Postby Thetoad » Sun May 21, 2017 4:49 am
Good news fellow kiwi! I'm just a few days ahead of you, 3 years 6 months and 8 days! Yes, I've read too that the 3 year mark is a good one to reach. I'm on 6 monthly CEA tests and a year now between consultant appts. I'll have a routine colonoscopy at the end of the year, making it a gap of 3 years since the one a year after surgery. No more CT scans. So, we should be celebrating 4 years in Summer. I'd like to know any survival % age for 3 1/2 years. I was told one after surgery and know about the magic 5 year mark, but there must be something in between? Trying to control my anxiety by seeing a councellor. (The first 3 are free.) Also had a long phone chat with a cancer survivor, arranged through the Cancer Society.
All the best. Keep warm, snow recently down here.
Emergency extended rt hemi November 2013.
Complete blockage, small perforation.
Stage 2a.
T3N0M0
22 Lymph nodes clear.
No bag.
Yearly appts appts and 6 monthly CEA tests.
Incisional hernia repair, mesh Nov. 2014.
Cellulitus
CEA 1.4 on 28/7/17
27/5/17. Gallbladder removed, open.
Good consultation Feb. 2017
CEA 1.7 on 16/11/17 colonoscopy ok Jan. 2018
Nurse pleased, March 2018. CEA 1.8. One more CEA test and hopefully last appt in November, 2018.
Prostate cancer, Gleason 7 (3+4) Sept. '18.