Hi, my wife has been diagnosed with rectal cancer. Fortunately caught early and hasn’t spread. Treatment options are surgery with temporary stomach or 5 weeks of daily radiotherapy. Apparently, for tumours this size and at this stage, there is increasing evidence that the radiotherapy option can destroy the tumour and avoid surgery. However, if it doesn’t then surgery has to happen anyway.
Lots of pros and bins to both options. We would be really interested to hear from anyone who has taken the radiotherapy only option and how that went. Such a big decision.
Thank you
