Hello, I hope everyone is as well as you can be, and I'm very sorry to get to know anyone who visits this post in such awful circumstances. My fiancé, in his mid 30s have been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer which unfortunately spread to his liver. This was picked up after trying to find out causes for severe anemia that felt like happened out of nowhere. As bad as the situation was, we kept a positive attitude, went through chemotherapy which brought reduction in cancer both in colon and liver. Outlook was good, planned colon surgery, 2 liver surgerys possibly on the way, and by the end of this year he should have been good to go back to normal! However, after colon surgery and following MRI and CT scans, it showed that last 2 segments of his liver that haven't been affected before, now to have lesions as well. The disease is terminal, statistics are harsh, he might have a year to live. Among whys and hows, I can't comprehend, how otherwise health man of such a young age, has such an awful fate. There's nothing comforting I can say or do. But NHS staff was very understanding and helpful, supporting us as much as they can. My fiancé will go back on chemo next week, and there is a plan in place to control the disease. I would appreciate some support here, perhaps encouraging stories of people being in the same situation and getting better or controlling the disease and living their lives to the fullest. Not trying to induce myself false hope, and I'm taking each day as it comes, but I'd like to hear how patients, who are in the same boat, do, as well as their family and loved ones. Thank you.
Hi MariMi and a very warm welcome to the online community which I hope you'll find is both an informative and supportive place to be.
I had a different type of cancer, so don't have the experience you're looking for, but I noticed that your post hadn't had any replies yet. Responding to you will 'bump' it back to the top of the discussion list.
((hugs))
"Never regret a day in your life, good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience"
It really depends on the cell type but my mum has only ever had one chemo combination partly due to other options not being so readily available back in 2009 .
She had Oxaliplatin and cap tablets for two years in a row and at the end of the second year there was a surgical window opened up .
However as things are never straight forward in the world of cancer she developed a spread to her lung which was removed with surgery only . Then when we really thought she was in the clear and even managed to be discharged she had a further lung spread to her lung and lymph nodes . She used Cetuximab only this time and again mounted a great response .
Both achieved great things and the hope is that you can knock it down to open up other options . Or you can tolerate different chemo options and as long as they keep responding then all seems good and they treat it as a chronic condition .
My mum had her larger surgery at a centre of excellence. They wanted the chemo first again and removed 73% of her liver . The chemo achieved a lot that time .
I did not realise it was your partner I replied to !
Take care ,
Court
ps I was typing my first post and getting interrupted as usual by the family . Will check my typos in due course . X
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