lpas wrote:Ibut tomorrow is the CT scan my urologist ordered (to further investigate the blood in my urine) and my mind has been going to dark places. So with that said...
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lpas wrote:I know I shouldn't be thinking this way, but tomorrow is the CT scan my urologist ordered (to further investigate the blood in my urine) and my mind has been going to dark places. So with that said...if you've been diagnosed at some point with peri mets, did you notice any symptoms? Did your CEA (or any other tumor markers) rise? Did they show up on CT or PET?
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CLD wrote:Does anyone know if there are certain features of one's colon cancer that makes it more likely to spread to peritoneum? For example, colon travels to liver, rectal to lungs... The fear of peritoneal spread keeps me up at night because it seems like there are less options for this spread.
chrisin wrote:CLD wrote:Does anyone know if there are certain features of one's colon cancer that makes it more likely to spread to peritoneum? For example, colon travels to liver, rectal to lungs... The fear of peritoneal spread keeps me up at night because it seems like there are less options for this spread.
Sorry to say that but a satellite tumor deposit in mesentery looks like the peritoneal spread. I may be wrong though.
Val*pal wrote:My husband was told from the get-go that it was likely he would have mets in the peritoneum since his colon tumor broke through the colon wall before he was diagnosed. The onc did not say it was 100% likely, but eventually they found evidence in the CTs. I think it took at least 16-18 months after his surgery before the oncologist stated they were there definitively. As someone else noted, they don't show up on CTs for a long time.
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