My mum may need a pelvic exenteration

Hey,

My mum has stage 3 bowel cancer but also is very rare and her primary cancer started to form near her bladder causing her to have secondary bowel cancer there. No sure of the terms of it but she's a complicated one. She is having the primary removed next week thank god in hee bowel and will have her stoma bag removed but the doctors have talks about in a few years giving her a pelvic exenteration. I would love to hear off other that are having or have had one before because me and my sister are so scared after reading things online that it wont give her long to live. I am only young i can't have her having any chance of a shorter life. **** cancer! 

thank you. 

  • Hi liaxxo1,

    Welcome to Cancer Chat. I'm sorry to hear of the situation with your mum and I hope you're getting on OK - I'm sure it must be a worrying time.

    Hopefully you'll get some more replies here soon, particularly from others with similar experience. You may find it helpful, if you haven't already, to also search the forum (using the button in the blue bar above) for other relevant discussions on here.

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    Wishing you all the best,

    Ben
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