Thanks Mike, my surgeon in our first meeting asked me if it turns out there’s no cancer after surgery if I would be upset.
I told him no, now that I’m at surgery time, being cCR or almost cCR, I want to take the chance of watch and wait. He supports me and suggested I do a few 6 weeks check sigmoidoscopies and then an MRI, if all checks out, get on watch and wait.
I’ve done extensive reading, particularly on recent studies of W&W and it’s no worse than surgery with a huge upside of no surgery.
I was floored when he told me that he supports it, he’s a well known surgeon in the Mass general system. Next scan and sigmo, he’ll put me in the program and hold off on surgery. He told me I was well informed and honestly, thanks to your detailed, well written posts, i was able to educate myself. I hope you do write that book you mentioned, I’d love to read it