Hi.  I wondered if I could get the thoughts of anyone with experience of bowel cancer please. 

I need help to make sense of the sizes of my Dad's mets please. 

 I have chatted with the support nurses at the hospital but I sometimes forget questions at the time and sometimes don't always the get chance to ask all I need to.  

My Dad was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer in Nov 2019.  Age 64. 

He was told he maybe has 12 months to live

Some cancer had spread to his lungs and his liver.  

His way of coping is not to talk about it much, he is happy, enjoying life and has always been keen to fight it and get on with treatment.

This is good as it is his way of coping however it means we are limited with knowledge about how things are going.

He had a stent in his bowel, that went well.  Had chemo, ( finished chemo in March 2020) went really well, not much side affects, all tumours shrank, tumour in liver shrank by 40%

I have so many questions and there is so much I don't understand

I'm devastated.  It sounds like quite a lot of tumours ,  bowel, both lungs, both sections of liver.   ( I didn't even know that the liver is spilt into 2 sections ) 

My Mum showed me Dad's scan results after the chemo, the shrinkage sounded really good. 

It said on the report that the tumour in bowel had gone from 10 mm to 6 mm. 

Mets in right lung lower lobe lesion   has shrank by 36 mm to 27 mm.

 The left lung lower lobe lesion has shrunk from 13 mm to 9 mm. 

Report says there is no para - aortic or iliac adenopathy. (I'm not sure what that means!) 

Largest liver depsoit has shrunk from 74 mm to 45 mm. 

Lesion in liver  segment 5/6 has shrunk from 17 mm to 6 mm. Smaller deposits are now difficult to identify! 

Its the liver I think that is the main  concern.  It said on the report that the liver has shrank from 74mm to 45mm in one section  and  by 17to 6mm in the other section which is great as it shows the chemo worked really well.  But if was 75mm to begin with, does that mean cancer was in the whole lenth of the liver as 75mm is the lenth of an adverage liver? 

Does anyone with more experience of tumours in liver shed any light on how bad the situation is please or help me understand how bad Dad's liver is? I'm not too good with maths/mm/cm/ inches. 

I need to try and make sense of these numbers.  

Thank you very much for any insight.

  I feel like when I don't know much then I worry more, I would rather know and understand the situation. 

Thank you 

Rachel