Early age onset colorectal cancer survey: Your responses needed!

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chrisca
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Early age onset colorectal cancer survey: Your responses needed!

Postby chrisca » Mon Jan 08, 2018 3:04 pm

Diagnosed with colorectal cancer under age 50? Your thoughts are needed in this survey:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIp ... g/viewform

Results will be presented at the Early Age Colorectal Cancer Symposium in April.

-Chris.
Male, false negative colonoscopy age 48
DX: 12/2010 rectal cancer age 51
Stage T3N0M0 2 cm from anal verge
neoadjuvant rad/chemo Xeloda
Rectal resection (open surgery) straight anastomosis
Xeloda round 2
ileostomy reversal 11/2011
Successful adhesion X-lap 8/2013
Ongoing LAR syndrome but NED 10 years

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Re: Early age onset colorectal cancer survey: Your responses needed!

Postby O Stoma Mia » Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:59 am

BUMP

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Re: Early age onset colorectal cancer survey: Your responses needed!

Postby Eleda » Sat Jan 13, 2018 12:54 pm

Done :D :D :D
SWF, 47
Mom to 3 sons 6/8/12
Dec4th 2017 colonoscopy for minor intermittent rectal bleeding during Summer
CEA 4.4
DX T3 L3C M0 2.5/3 cm above AV.
JAN 3RD started 1650mg Zelda 2xday, with 28 radiation
Did tagamet 800mg daily and 75mg IV VIT C WEEKLY UNTIL SURGERY and
Tumor reduce by 80% 1 LN still remaining
TATME May10th, temp illeostomy
10/07/2018 CEA 3
MMR INTACT
Began FOLFOX July 10th
24/08/2018 Allergic reaction so next infusion lucovorin and 5fu
CEA 4
Second attempt with oxi aug 12th

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Re: Early age onset colorectal cancer survey: Your responses needed!

Postby Robino1 » Sat Jan 13, 2018 1:28 pm

Unfortunately I was diagnosed at 53. I more than likely already had cancer before I was 50 but did not yet know it.

Thank you all that are eligible for taking the survey.
At 54 2014 1st colonoscopy colon cancer detect
Colon resect margins clear. No chemo Stage II
2017
Distend abd, pain in intestines.
CT scan seeding & Ascites
Lap diag - cancer on the omentum
CEA 217; 219
FOLFOX started 6/17
CEA 202
8/29/17 CT melting of tumor.
Latest CT scan shows 2 new tumors and return of ascites.
CEA: (2017)9/30 -109; 10/12 -99.1; 11/4 -90.7; 11/30 -70.7; 12/14 -83.4; (2018)1/4 -73.3; 2/1-84.2; 89.2; 89.8; 88.5; 81.8: 93.5; 107; 119
BRAF V600e

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Re: Early age onset colorectal cancer survey: Your responses needed!

Postby Beccaschocked » Tue Jan 16, 2018 5:07 pm

Done :D
Dx @ 32, mom to 6 week old and 2 year old (now 3 & 5)
3/2015 stage IV colon cancer Mets to liver. CEA > 8,000.
4/2015- June 15; 3 infusions folfoxiri +avastin, 4 infusions folfox
7/2015 colon & liver resection; 6 infusions of folfiri
1/2016-5/2017 NED (5mm lung nodule stable)
10/2017- growing lung nodule 12mm from 5mm-Confirmed recurrence - CEA 2.5
11/2017- lobectomy- no chemo
1/2018- CT & PET back to NED. CEA 1.3; 1.4; 1.2; 1.2.; 1.0; 1.1; 1.1; 0.9......
7/18-2023 - Clean Scans

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Re: Early age onset colorectal cancer survey: Your responses needed!

Postby WriterGirl1969 » Tue Jan 16, 2018 9:42 pm

Done.
DX 3/4/2016 Colon Cancer; age 46 Mom of then 4-yr-old
Stage IIIB: T3N1M0
3/31/16 Surgery
4 to 10/2016: Xeloda Monotherapy
CEA: 10/16 0.56, 1/17 0.54
CT CLEAR: 3/6/17; 4/17/18; 4/16/19
NED 3 years
“If I can help somebody as I walk along, then my living shall not be in vain.”

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Re: Early age onset colorectal cancer survey: Your responses needed!

Postby CAGirl » Tue Jan 16, 2018 10:13 pm

Done. Thanks for the bump and the nudge.
Dx 2/2017, age 45, 2 kids: 6 yrs & 3 yrs
History of Crohn's disease - dx in 1997; in remission, thus no colonoscopy in over 10 years
Anemia dx 11/16: GI doc assured me "the likelihood of colon cancer" was "very low".
Stage 3C - T3N2b
8/64 lymph nodes; clear margins surgery 3/17
12 cycles of Folfox 4/17-9/17
3-month CT scan midway through chemo, no changes
2-3-mo CT scan post chemo 11/17 slightly larger lung nod (incr. from 7mm to 8 or 9mm)
CT scan 3/18 - NED
clear CT scan 1/2019 NED

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Re: Early age onset colorectal cancer survey: Your responses needed!

Postby lauragb » Wed Jan 17, 2018 10:26 pm

Hi Chris. I noticed in your signature that you had a false negative colonoscopy before finally being diagnosed. That also happened to me at age 48, already had symptoms and then did not get diagnosed until age 53. My 5 cm tumor was also 2 cm from anal verge. Anyway, I wonder if location plays a part in false negatives. Because I already had symptoms, I consider myself under 50 when the cancer developed. Was your tumor also large by the time it was found? Our stories are similar so I was curious. Glad you are NED. Gratefully, I am too, and also have LARS.

Here's to staying NED.
Laura
RC 3B 7/2011 @ 53
Chemoradiation 5 weeks 8/11
LAR-Hysterect-temp ileo
pCR, 0/23 nodes
Folfox 1/12, Xeloda 2/12 to 5/12
Reversal 5/12
SBO,lysis of adhesions 12/12
NED 11/12, 11/13, 6/16

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Re: Early age onset colorectal cancer survey: Your responses needed!

Postby mmblz » Sat Jan 20, 2018 4:11 pm

Done.
Really, twitter for the online discussion? I'm not THAT young. Under 50 yes, not under 25 ROFL.
40yo married 16 years. 4 kids 12, 10, 7, 5
2015-09-21 colonoscopy finds tumor in sigmoid, partial obstruction
2015-09-22 CT no mets, path G2 adenocarcinoma, CEA 1.2
2015-09-29 lap hemicolectomy at MSKCC
2015-10-06 pT3 N1a M0 stage IIIB
2015-10-22 folfox started - 12 rounds, last 4 no oxaliplatin
2016-10-27 clear CT !
2021-03-25 "cured"


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