My hubby John was the youngest of 6 kids. His 2 sisters both died of abdominal located cancers. One was stomach, not quite sure if the other was stomach or bowel. John got bowel cancer diag, in 2015. It was already 50% of bowel. He was 61. Towards end it was suspected that although very rare, the cancer had gone to his brain. He moved during a brain scan so it wasn't confirmed. The symptoms were rather like dementia with a twist. Looking back the changes were there but too subtle for me to notice as early as 2016. I didn't see these till after he died in 2019. He left a video remembering people he cared about. In it he mentioned neighbours who he barely knew, yet the previous family whose kids were like our own were left out. He was also losing time perspective where hours felt like minutes, and the once spectacular almost photographic memory began to be affected.
His older brother Joe also got bowel cancer at a similar stage about 18 mth after John's diagnosis. They both had the same op. John had chemo but Joe refused it but all seemed okay and no sign of cancer in his bowel...but with John the cancer never returned to his bowel it came on his abdomen wall...so now I wonder if Joes cancer is back and gone to his brain too. His wife is very worried but Joe refuses to go to the doctor. There is def something wrong but no idea if dementia or cancer.... but there is also the genetic worry. No one has had the bottle to follow up if there is a test that can be done for genetic cancer...is bowel cancer even one of them? Just seems odd that 4 out of 6 kids had abdo located cancers and 3 died....any advice please?
