Postby Rock_Robster » Sun May 17, 2020 4:49 am
Hi Readerokie,
Sorry to hear your news, but glad you’ve found the group. 3b is clearly intimidating and the treatments objectively unpleasant, but also good to know the stats are still squarely on your side.
Indeed cancer treatment can be rough on fertility. My main advice would be to freeze some sperm before treatment starts, as nothing is guaranteed. This way you can confidently pursue the treatment that confers the best outcomes for your husband, without having to trade-off against fertility concerns. I had 5 weeks of pelvic radiation and 13 cycles of chemo, I am now very lucky to be NED (after stage 4) but my sperm count is currently zero. Thankfully I have 10 sticks of sperm frozen; enough to do artificial insemination and/or IVF if we want to. The radiation is definitely the most damaging, but chemo can still have an impact. In many cases sperm counts can recover from 6-12 months after treatment too.
Best of luck with it,
Rob
41M Australia
2018 Dx RC
G2 EMVI LVI, 4 liver mets
pT3N1aM1a Stage IVa MSS NRAS G13R
CEA 14>2>32>16>19>30>140>70
11/18 FOLFOX
3/19 Liver resection
5/19 Pelvic IMRT
7/19 ULAR
8/19 Liver met
8/19 FOLFOX, FOLFOXIRI, FOLFIRI
12/19 Liver resection
NED 2 years
11/21 Liver met, PALN, lung nodules
3/22 PVE, lymphadenectomy, liver SBRT
10/22 PALN SBRT
11/22 Liver mets, peri nodule. Xeloda+Bev
4/23 XELIRI+Bev
9/23 ATRIUM trial
12/23 Modified FOLFIRI+Bev
3/24 VAXINIA (CF33 + hNIS) trial