I had a subtotal colectomy 9 weeks ago. For the first 2 weeks I had diarrhea a lot, but since then I have only one bowel movement a day and in the last few days it’s been very formed. I know with only having a little large colon I was told I would have a lot of bowel movements. The surgeon said I mi...

Has anyone done FOLFOX with platelets already low mine are 80-100

I am going to be starting 6 rounds of folfox soon. I would like to know peoples experience on it good/bad, side effects short and long term.

I feel so confused by all this. I haven’t had any of those blood test or how I get them or about tissue on the slides

Thank you all for your reply’s it’s all be very helpful. A few things for me to add is I am 39, I also have cirrhosis of the liver caused by fatty liver which just makes me so unsure what chemos if ant would I be able to have. There was a comment on my pathology report saying that it have been sent ...

I received my pathology report from my surgeon I have stage 2 pT3N0M0 With G2, 0/17 lymph nodes but I did have positive for intramural large vessel invasion and perineural invasion both sound very scary and from what I read means high risk of spreading or recurrence. I will see the oncologist soon a...

I had my surgery Fri April 26 Subtotal colectomy, 2/3 of my colon was removed. My surgeon felt this was the best since I am 39 and it would hopefully prepare me for a long future. I am starting to feel better, spent a week in hospital recovering. Now I am waiting to find out from pathology on the st...

I am so sorry for your loss

I seen the surgeon yesterday. I was thinking when I went in that he would think partial resection was enough but cause of my age (39) he said he rather do a full removal of my colon and attach the small intestine to my rectum. This might prevent more surgery in the future if at some point it returns...

Lol thank you for all the butt comments it made me laugh. I am not sure yet if my appointment was good or bad, I guess it wasnt bad just not sure I know a lot more then I did before. I can have my surgery in my local hospital but the surgeon said I should have it in St.Johns since the don’t have pla...

Thank you all for the reply’s. The information you have given me has made me feel a little like I know what is going on. This site has given me so many questions. I go tomorrow to meet with the surgeon I am hopeful to get this started but scared at the same time. Will let you know what the surgeon h...

Hi I am from Canada currently living in Newfoundland. I am just recently diagnosed with Colon cancer. It was found during a colonoscopy and my GI doctor feels it could be early stage and my CT scan came back clear for Mets. I am meeting with the surgeon on April 1 to get talk about surgery treatment...

Hi I am new here. On Feb 27th I had a colonoscopy which I was having cause I needed and endoscopy to check if I hav3 bleeding veins cause I have cirrhosis good news was I don’t. Bad news is a spot was found in my colon biopsy and was told March 5th it’s colon cancer. I am 39 years old and like anyon...