The Colon Club

Hi all,
I've been pretty quiet for the past 2 years, but I was recently diagnosed with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma of the left breast after a routine mammogram and follow up biopsy. It's small, just 1.3 cm, but 2 primaries in 3 years is beyond comprehension. Any one else experience 2 primary cancers?

Stage 3b Colon Cancer in descending colon December 2012 (T3N1M0) with one lymph node affected.

Stage 0 Appendicial Cancer in appendicial opening July 2016.

Hi Spinnz, sorry to hear what you’re going through. I was diagnosed with melanoma in December 2012. Luckily it hadn’t spread. Then in 2015 I was diagnosed with IIIb colon cancer which has now decided to spread to my lungs, liver, peritoneum.

I’m glad you caught your breast cancer early and I hope your treatment goes well!

I had two primaries within 18 months. Ovarian cancer the second one.

Colon Stage 3 in 2007 and NSC lung Cancer in 2017.
It's more common than you think.

Thanks everyone for replying! I'm sorry we're in the same boat. I do have a lot of cancer in my family. My dad had NSC lung and my mom had stage 2 breast cancer. I think there should be a one cancer per person maximum.

I agree, 1 per customer. Still wrapping my head around it all, and dealing with the fear of what’s next?

spinnz wrote:Thanks everyone for replying! I'm sorry we're in the same boat. I do have a lot of cancer in my family. My dad had NSC lung and my mom had stage 2 breast cancer. I think there should be a one cancer per person maximum.

A second early stage primary is better than a reoccurrence of the first cancer. When the blip showed up on my right ovary, I was relieved to find out it was an early stage ovarian cancer and not a metastatic reoccurrence of my colon cancer. That would have been a much worse scenario.

I agree with that! Recurances are much more difficult. It is weird though that I am getting cancers that usually occur in older people.

I'm so sorry you're dealing with a second primary cancer!*hugs* I hope your chemo goes well!*hugs*

I’m 36, diagnosed with CRC last week, 7 weeks after the birth of my second child. In 2016 I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, shortly after the birth of my first child. Thyroid cancer was early and treated with surgery only. Still waiting on diagnostics and plan for CRC.