Hi this is Javi, from Spain, I was also a diagnosed Stage 2 while young (46 yo) Sorry I am replying a bit late. I was treated with 3 months of CAPOX. It was tough, but it was livable and it has not left obvious lasting side effects FOLFIRI is the combo of 5FU , LEUCOVORIN and IRINOTECAN, for the rec...

I’m starting a new trial that inhibits the kras mutation. This is a pan kras inhibitor so works on all the variations of kras mutations. The oncologist said there has been some success in other cancers that involve the kras mutation like pancreatic and lung cancer. Hopefully it shrinks the cancer a...

Hi JPDALTON, this is Javi, from Spain. My primary was also in the splenic flexure so I ended up having left colectomy but no need for colostomy bag. The recovery took less than a month, I think, but i had open surgery, if you have laparoscopic surgery it may be faster for you. At the beginning even ...

Welcome, and sorry about your husband´s situation. Please don´t forget most of us are patients not doctors (although some here have read a quite a bit about the disease, treatments, prognosis and so on) There are two types systemic treatments for colorectal cancer: chemotherapy and immunotherapy The...

DarknessEmbraced wrote:My surgery was November 20th, 2014. I was stage 2a and was cured by surgery.

Well done! Thanks for sharing the hope.

A couple of thoughts and questions (probably not worth much) I guess the fact that the Liver enzymes are elevated makes you think that your husband might have Liver Metastasis, however liver mets very often cause CEA to elevate and your husband does not have that. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articl...

Hi Jared Your anxiety is understandable, however remember that the fact that you had blood in your stool is in not necessarily predictive of colorectal cancer (CRC), so even when that test is positive you are still much more likely not to have cancer than to have it. You can search FIT test CRC posi...

Thansk for sharing the joy and the hope!

May you keep on sharing for many more years.

Javi

Q1 CEA < 1.12 μ g/L, FASTING GLUCOSE 5.16 (4.94 – 5.44) ,   LDL-cholesterol 2.65 ± 0.84 ,NAFLD, n (%) 18 (36) ,Regular exercise, n (%) 25 (51.0) Q2 CEA 1.12 – 1.66 μ g/L, FASTING GLUCOSE 5.11 (4.83 – 5.83) ,   LDL-cholesterol 2.77 ± 0.76 ,NAFLD n (%), 26 (52) ,Regular exercise, n (%) 23 (46.9) Q3 CE...

10Christa, I am going through a similar experience to your own. My CEA had been fluctuating between 1.2 and 1.4 for four years as well. In the last blood control it was raised to 1.6. This is just 0.3 increase over the previous reading six months earlier but it also amounts to 23% increase which I f...

Hi Everyone , Claudine , good to see you here and your husband still pressing on . Utahgal7 you have had a tough time and hope this next few months are easier for you . My mum died over the summer at the grand age of 82 having being diagnosed at 67 with stage 4 disease . The first few years were th...

Thank you for stopping by and letting us know.

This is uplifting for anybody recently diagnosed.

Javi

So sorry to hear this.
May Sara´s soul rest in peace

Sad news, so young!

He seemed always happy and optimistic. And his posts were very helpful.

May he rest in peace.

I just read a study about saying https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5495454/ In fact, as can be seen in this 2016 review article in the Journal of Global Oncology, among folk with cancer somewhere else, lung nodules were found to be metastases (spread of primary cancer) in 64% of cases wh...