Hi,
I was diagnosed with caecal cancer after a colonoscopy in April. It took 10 weeks from the abnormal bowel screen to get surgery, which I was initially told was likely to cure me. Now, at the follow-up 4 weeks later I'm told that the cancer is stage 3 as it was close to the bowel wall and there is evidence of it in the tiny blood vessels around the bowel, although all 31 removed lymph nodes were clear. I'm now waiting to see an oncologist re adjuvant chemo.
I'm terrified by the whole thing, because while I wait yet more weeks (will be 6 weeks post-op when I see the oncologist) for treatment, who knows what is still floating about in my system? I just feel that I'm always at the back of the queue and that the longer they keep me waiting, the worse my prognosis will be.
