I'm new to this club. My wonderful wife (50) was diagnosed in March with CRC. At that time it seemed like resection (sigmoidectomy) and a quick check of the LNs and we'd be done. Well, after resection, found 1 of 14 LN positive, so of to adjuvant therapy. Not so fast new baseline CT shows new spot on liver (really ... in two months - I thought CRC was 'slow'). MRI raises our onc's confidence we're now stage iv. Just did first round of folfox today. Still hanging onto the fact it's small (1.7 x 1.4 cm). Don't know if it's resectable yet (find out Monday), onto Mayo on Tuesday for additional eyes. Scared about losing my soulmate. Grateful for a site like this. Haven't told our son about stage iv yet... want him to finish his finals first. He's really close to my wife. Trying to stay positive.... we keep our mantra to '1 small' and hang on to that for now. Sorry for barfing all this up on the site.
Thanks,
J