Welcome to the club, but sorry that you had to find us. I too had a circumferential tumor in the ascending colon, cecum to be exact. It was found during a colonoscopy screening for my 57th birthday...Happy Birthday to me
. I had no symptoms. Right sided colon cancer does not have symptoms until it is more advanced. With no symptoms, it sounds as if it was caught early like mine. Went for preop bloodwork, ct scan, chest xray before the biopsy came back. Then the cancer was confirmed, my GI suggested a surgeon. First and foremost, you need a
Colon Rectal Surgeon...very very important. The one that I went to was the head of the Colon Rectal Dept and Co Director of the MD Anderson Gastrointestinal Center in NJ. If I am not mistaken, you have a MD Anderson facility in Fl. There is also Moffit... You can call and find out. Also, I am sure that there are people on this forum who had surgery near you. They are going to be your best bet for a good surgeon. People on this forum are from all around the world. In the North east, our go to places are University of Penn, Jefferson, Cooper University and Cancer Center of America. many have spoke about Sloan Kettering in NY. Others have also been to Dana Farber, and Mass General.
Good luck with your journey and know that we are always here for you. You can see my type of cancer in my signature below.
Beckster
57/F
DX:(CC) 10/19/16
11/4/16- Lap right hemi(cecum)
CEA- Pre Op (1.9), Pre Chemo (2.5)
Type: Adenocarcinoma
Tumor size:3.5 cm x 2.5 x 0.7 cm
Grade: G3
TNM: T3N0M0/IIA
LN: 0/24
LVI present
Surgical margins: clear
MSS
12/27/2016 - Capeox, anaphylactic
1/2/17 to 6/9/17- Xeloda
6/17,12/17,6/18,12/18,6/19,12/19,12/20,12/21 CT Scan NED
CEA- 6/17-
3.6, 9/17-
2.8 12/17-
2.8, 3/18-
3.1, 6/18-
3.0, 9/18
2.8, 12/18
2.5 3/19
3.1 6/19
3.1 9/19
2.6 12/19
2.8 6/20
3.0 12/20
2.7 6/21
2.9,[color=#000000]12/21 2.7[/color]
Clear Colonoscopy 10/17, 11/19,11/21