Hi Mary, 

I have been reading through all of these posts dating from 2015, and they have really given me a more positive outlook. 

I understand your situation, recently my mum has been diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer, it has unfortunately spread to her liver and stomach. We have been told it is incurable and will shorten her lifespan, but she is starting chemotherapy next week. Such an awful shock. 
I wish all the best for you and your husband, we just all need to remain positive and try to be strong through these times. There is hope. 

Lily x

Hi lily, we are now at the treatment stage. We as s family, especially William decided he wanted to go on the clinical trial that's going just now. He is starting immune therapy on Wednesday this week then radiotherapy next Monday. It's all so much to take in so much to remember but like u we are been as positive as we can be, we've been told it will shorten his lifespan too. I wish u & ur mum all the best ️ 
 

mary xx

Thank you so much Mary, 

I wish the best of luck to you and your family for Wednesday and next Monday, i’m glad to hear his treatment is starting, and hopefully only positive news will come from here. My mum unfortunately also has sepsis and a lot of fluid, she has gone into hospital to have it drained and is staying over. 

Hopeful and positive wishes,

Lily x

Hi lily,

am so sorry to hear ur Mum is in hospital. Sending luv &  ((Hugs)) to u. Try stay strong  

mary xx

Hi Mary

I'm so sorry to hear this, you must be so worried. I don't know if you've read my story but I was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer in Oct 2017, it spread to my liver and lymph nodes. I had three lesions on my liver. I was also told that it may not be curable or operable.  HOWEVER.......I am now three and a half years on from my right helicolectomy (part of bowel removed) three years on from 2 liver ops (I had the ALPPS procedure which is relatively new) I also had eight rounds of chemo from the Jan 2018 to April 1028 and from Aug 2018 to Nov 2018. I have just had my 6 monthly ct scan and will get the results on Wednesday, I'll let you know the results but I am very positive that it will show NED (no evidence of disease)

So the moral of this story is that it can be beaten......I am proof. Please stay positive and I hope your husbands treatment goes well.

You can both do this, there is light at the end of the tunnel, good luck and take care

Denise

Hi Denise 

Thank u. Ur story like many on here give me real hope. Thanks for sharing if story with me. 
 

mary xx

Hi Mary

My partner too was diagnosed with rectal cancer with mets to liver last September.  He has also been having chemo and immunotherapy: cetaxumab and forifil combined. He has gone from 10 small spots on liver to 5 which have shrunk. The side effects unfortunately for him have been unpleasant and required hospitalisation. He's so far had 6 rounds and is stopping temporarily to have op for a stoma (not removing primary tumour due to liver mets). The stoma is for quality of life as several months on laxatives after radiotherapy is crap! (Excuse pun).   We still find it hard to come to terms with, no symptoms, thought it was piles last Summer until colonoscopy proved different! 

Sending you and your husband best wishes

Cathy

Hi all,

I've been following this thread over the last 12 months since my mother got diagnosed with bowel cancer that has spread to the liver. The diagnosis wasn't good and they said they could not operate. 8 or so months down the line she has responded well to treatment and her tumours have shrunk. The surgeons had a meeting to see if they could now operate which has given us hope. Unfortunately they have told us today that they cannot operate due to the tumours being attached to blood vessels. We are hoping that if the tumours keep shrinking, they will eventually detach? Have any of your come across this situation before? The best person to speak to would be the oncologist but  our face to face meeting is not until July. 
 

sorry to see the battles that you are all going through but it's good to see that there is some hope out there. 

Hello Sarah 

I recently had to go to an urgent care center with pain in my right side of stomach was sent straight to hospital for tests where a ct scan was done which showed thickening of the bowel I then had to have a colonosopy which gave me a shock resuit I was told I had a cancerous tumor in my colon 5 cm I got to have another ct scan

 since this was told me I have been in total shock and so scared and terrified about what's to come  and what happens next 

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