My partner has a secondary bowel cancer tumour on her liver.
We had a bad year with the primary (medics thought it was diverticulitis). We thought it was all over after an emergency operation to remove a large but fairly discrete tumour in the bowell. We'd just heard the date of her stoma reversal operation when the secondary showed up.
We're both in our sixties so our children are old enough to cope and grandchildren are too young to know.