Hi,
I read that right colon cancer is harder to cure than left colon cancer. Any experience/thought on this?
Thanks,
Nate.
natelaugh wrote:Hi,
I read that right colon cancer is harder to cure than left colon cancer. Any experience/thought on this?
Thanks,
Nate.
Beckster wrote:Welcome....I am right sided too....When I met with my onc, we discussed the bilogical difference between right and left (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5768473/). In stages I-III, chemo is the same for both sides; however, if a right sided I-III. has a recurrence (now stage IV), it limits chemo agents because some do not work on right sided and I would be limited on what they can use. My oncologist told me that if I had a recurrence, they would be less options for chemo agents. Pathology needs to be done at a major cancer center....many Stage II have had a different pathology outcome when they sought out a second opinion...viewtopic.php?f=1&t=60639&start=15
You need to advocate for yourself and make sure that you get ALL the information needed to make a decision. Current research is suggesting that Stage II right sided has a better prognosis than left sided. Stage III does not.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6089587/
https://www.practiceupdate.com/content/ ... mors/63276
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5662378/
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... tic_review
Beckster
Beckster wrote:Welcome....I am right sided too....When I met with my onc, we discussed the bilogical difference between right and left (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5768473/). In stages I-III, chemo is the same for both sides; however, if a right sided I-III. has a recurrence (now stage IV), it limits chemo agents because some do not work on right sided and I would be limited on what they can use. My oncologist told me that if I had a recurrence, they would be less options for chemo agents. Pathology needs to be done at a major cancer center....many Stage II have had a different pathology outcome when they sought out a second opinion...viewtopic.php?f=1&t=60639&start=15
You need to advocate for yourself and make sure that you get ALL the information needed to make a decision. Current research is suggesting that Stage II right sided has a better prognosis than left sided. Stage III does not.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6089587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5662378/
https://coloncancersupport.colonclub.co ... 39#p482969
https://www.practiceupdate.com/content/ ... mors/63276
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... tic_review
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Becksternatelaugh wrote:Hi,
I read that right colon cancer is harder to cure than left colon cancer. Any experience/thought on this?
Thanks,
Nate.
O Stoma Mia wrote:Beckster wrote:Welcome....I am right sided too....When I met with my onc, we discussed the bilogical difference between right and left (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5768473/). In stages I-III, chemo is the same for both sides; however, if a right sided I-III. has a recurrence (now stage IV), it limits chemo agents because some do not work on right sided and I would be limited on what they can use. My oncologist told me that if I had a recurrence, they would be less options for chemo agents. Pathology needs to be done at a major cancer center....many Stage II have had a different pathology outcome when they sought out a second opinion...viewtopic.php?f=1&t=60639&start=15
You need to advocate for yourself and make sure that you get ALL the information needed to make a decision. Current research is suggesting that Stage II right sided has a better prognosis than left sided. Stage III does not.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6089587/
https://www.practiceupdate.com/content/ ... mors/63276
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5662378/
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... tic_review
Beckster
Beckster -
Thank you for providing supporting evidence on the right colon vs. left colon issue. However, three of the links that you provided are invalid and need to be corrected.
A correct representation of a URL on this message board generally requires that the URL be enclosed by the bracketed [ URL ] and [ /URL ] tags. If they aren't enclosed by the bracketed URL tags, then the longer URLs are truncated to 50 character limit and the missing parts of the URL are replaced by three dots: . . . But this causes the URL to become invalid and unreadable.
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FYI, Here are three valid URLs that you can use to replace the three invalid ones in your original post:
https://coloncancersupport.colonclub.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=60639#p482969
https://www.practiceupdate.com/content/asco-gi-2018-unselected-patients-with-right-sided-metastatic-colorectal-tumors-experience-worse-disease-free-survival-than-those-with-left-sided-tumors/63276
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268221060_Is_right-sided_colon_cancer_different_to_left-sided_colorectal_cancer_-_A_systematic_review
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