Good afternoon fellow members,
I'm the caregiver to 49 year old husband diagnosed with stage iv colon cancer on 8/2017 after an emergency room visit due to intense stomach aches. We found out that day that the cancer had spread to the liver and lungs, large tumors in the liver and smaller in the lungs. the ileostomy was performed, started chemo with different cocktails that worked in the beginning and later stopped. Fast forward to the beginning of 2018 and we also found out the cancer was in his bones, tried radiation but it did not work, tumors did not shrink. Last December my husband had just started a clinical trial ( immunotherapy) when he started to complain of headaches and feeling dizzy. I emailed the doctor and asked if he could have a brain scan and the next day he went in for an MRI of the brain. Straight to the emergency room, they found a large tumor on the back of his head and had to perform emergency surgery to remove and later did gamma knife to shrink the other small tumors found that were not removed during surgery. Because of the brain mets my husband had to abandon the clinical trial and was put on Lonsurf. The doctr told him that his liver was his biggest concern and if they didn't find a solution he would only have 3-6 months to live. We went for the 1st treatment of Y90 to his liver one month ago and last monday we did the second treatment ( each side of the liver was done at different times). We have 3 small children and my husband is in constant pain from the bone metastasis.It breaks my heart to see him suffer and I know that the kids are starting to act up as they see their father in bed most of the time and have almost no time with him. My question to all of you is, is it possible to recover from all this? I look at all the signatures here and most people have lungs/liver or lymph nodes/liver combination but I never have seen anyone that has liver, lung, bone and brain and I'm starting to lose faith and wanted to find out if anyone knows someone that has recovered from colon cancer that has metastasized to so many different organs. Thank you