Hey internet strangers,

I feel like here is a good place to let my heavy feelings out into the world. Maybe sharing them here can expose me to critical information from other people's stories that could help my brother fight cancer.

The story is this:

About several months months ago, my brother who's only 36 years old had started feeling pain in his stomach. He's a fit man who regularly exercising and healthy overall. After going to the hospital he had a cyst drained and released home. They even took a CT scan for the stomach back then and didn't detect anything but the cyst. Over the following couple of months he's been experiencing tolerable pain in his stomach which at first thought to be from the cyst drain procedure.

Fast forward to now, he had a CT scan and had biopsies taken from abs and colon after his colon was blocked during an exam. There seems to be 2 tumors, a main tumor in the colon area which I think is around 4cm, and one in the abs area which is like 2.5cm. I'm not sure but it seems to be stage 3 or 4.
His liver and lungs seem clean after scans, hopefully it's a good sign.

My family don't have history of colon cancer, and this all came as a shock to us and we're still overwhelmed and don't know how to act really much.

We're currently waiting for the final diagnosis to determine the treatment strategy.

I feel like sharing it here to get it off my chest and perhaps receive information that could help my family and my brother win this war. Hopefully even hear success stories that defied odds and what might have helped win this war.