Im new to the board and wanted to introduce myself. Im Sammy DeFriese. Im 51 and live in Chattanooga, TN. Ive gotten so much information and inspiration from reading the posts and learning about everyones journey. Ive been really touched by the courage and strength so many of you show.
I wanted to encourage everyone to keep moving forward, stay positive, and enjoy every minute of your time with friends and family.
For my RC, I had a great surgery, node negative 0/21, and no mets was fortunate. I had symptoms for 3 years and ignored them. Just really dumb. Finally did Colonoscopy and found tumor. I was very lucky it was slow growing and hadn't spread. I have a few high risk factors but surgery was great and Margins were all negative with negative nodes. CEA after surgery .5 with CA-19 at 2.9.
Currently, I tried Capox but the Oxyplatin caused incredible vomiting and serious nasuea for 4 straight days so we stopped Oxy. I might still do Xeloda monotherapy. My Oncologist admittedly just doesn't know if I need it. Deciding this week.
Any thoughts on "mop up" chemo for Stage 2a with a few high risk factors like LVI and PNI but low risk factors like 0/21 node negative, clear margins, and low CEA and CA 19-9 post op would be welcomed.