Hi there,

My mum who has just turned 67 was recently diagnosed with bowel cancer and today was told that it has spread to her abdominal cavity with a small patch on her liver and potentially the lungs although they aren't sure about the lungs and are not overly concerned about that at the moment. She has been offered chemotherapy and is to have a stoma fitted next week to avoid any bowel obstruction in addition to having biopsies taken from the abdominal cavity. 
 

I was wondering if anyone has any experience of dealing with this? I believe that there is a potential surgical option called cytoreductive surgery with HIPEC but this is only for carefully selected candidates (we are looking into this at the moment). 
 

It has all come as a major shock as she did not have any major symptoms at all and it was discovered during a colonoscopy after she had a pain in her right side for a relatively short period of time. Any advice would be much appreciated.