My wonderful partner was diagnosed with bowel cancer in July 2009 (aged 45), a week before our daughter was born. He had a sub-total colectomy (no stoma needed) and distal pancreatectomy, followed by XELOX/CAPOX for 8 cycles, a small liver metastasis was removed along with his gall bladder in Feb 2010. We were then told the cancer had gone and only a very slim chance of it returning.
When he went for follow up scans…
