Hi everyone,
Thanks for your kind replies to my 1st blog, I feel quite rude that I didn't reply to them, didn't understand how these things work and didn't look at my blog lol haha.
Well what a roller coaster this experience is (I mean the cancer not the bloging lol!) I'm looking for advice from anyone out there who has had an APR or an LAR for rectal cancer. I have a tumour 5cm from the anal verge. I've had chemoradiotherapy and am booked in for surgery on 26 March 2010.
I'm really in a turmoil as it is uncertain which operation my surgeon can perform, below 5cm would be and APR with a permenant stoma and above 5cm would be an LAR to resection colon to anus. He says if there is enough good margin he may be able to go for the LAR but if there is a risk of local reccurance he won't do it.
There are choices and decision making and it's confusing. Any experiences of either that anyone could share with me would be much appreciated.
Thankyou
Jan
