Hi everyone. I've had an anterior resection for sigmoid cancer. The whole process from routine screening, colonoscopy and CT, to operation seemed to go so quickly.
I was lucky as operation went well, robotic key whole surgery, no stoma and was walking the next day, The surgeon was happy that they removed the cancer. One thing that threw me was pre-op diagnosis was T2N0Mo, but after op it was T3N1. No one has explained why they changed the diagnosis and what it means. I've read on here and other forums thatT3 means the cancer went into the bowel wall. I have put a lot of faith in the N1 diagnosis. Only one out of thirteen nodes they took out had cancerous changes.
Now though I'm waiting to see oncologist and everything seems to have slowed down. I have no idea what the chemo will do, whether I can work ok. Not knowing what the oncologist will suggest as treatment is the only thing that has really worried me. I will find out next Friday..
Hi Purple05 and welcome to the Macmillan Community.
I hope that you are recovering well from your surgery, but appreciate you will have questions about what might come next.
The best place for you to connect with others who have been through something similar will be the bowel cancer forum, and this is the link
Bowel(Colon and Rectal Cancer) Forum
if you click on this link, you’ll be able to join the group and put up a new post to introduce yourself to the other members. I have had bowel surgery and a stoma myself, but not for bowel cancer, so I’m not able to share the experience you need. Others in the group will, I’m sure, be happy to help.
I hope you continue well with your recovery and have a clear plan going forward when you have your next appointment.
Sarah xx
