my family member diagnosed has a stage 2 colon cancer..i am very much scared and feeling hopeless,when i heard after operation he need a chemotherapy for survival, i had a bad feeling every time i heard a chemotherapy beacause all people ive known that undergo for this therapy is nothings happen.,please help us and pray for us. thanks guys for all the answers..it helps a lot...
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I am a Stage III colon cancer survivor. I had chemo and radiation. The side effects are not fun, but your family member will be fine. Colon cancer is treatable if it's detected early enough. Sounds like this one is.
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He has a good chance. I just found out I'm in stage 3, and I'm fighting in every way possible. At stage 2 there's still well over an 80% survival rate with proper treatment. I just had a resection less than 2 weeks ago (removed about 8" of my colon) and I'm back to work already. After his, they'll have him in chemo in about 5-6 weeks. Chemo for colon cancer is a little different--it doesn't make your hair fall out, and it just makes you tired for a day or so. And it's a very successful treatment. Most people don't know that there are different types of drugs used in chemo for different types of cancer. Colon cancer is one of the more survivable forms of cancer, as long as you fight.
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If it is true that "all people ive known that undergo for this therapy is nothings happen", then they are indeed the exception; colon cancer is VERY treatable, and depending on what other organs are affected, even at Stage II is far from a "death sentence"... Follow what the oncologist advises, and in 99% of cases, all will be well...
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Chemo, Radiation, and Surgery are all options. Most often patients are treated with a combination of those treatments and sometimes other treatments as well.
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Stage 2 cancer means that no metastasis have been found. Sometimes there are features in the cancer that are associated with increased risk of subsequent development of metastasis. That would be things like for instance infiltration of blood vessels. The purpose of chemotherapy in that situation is to destroy those few cancer cells that might have gotten into the bloodstream. In other words - chemotherapy is given as part of the cure. It is not a palliative treatment. It increases the prognosis from good to even better.
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Mark I feel sorry for you. If you only knew who prayer helped. Please don't dismiss it until you've tired it. Prayers work wonders. If it wasn't for prayers, my sister would not be here today. What's the harm in trying both. Chemo and prayer. and I don't care in the least how many thumbs down I get because nothing will sway me either way.
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Vitamin B17. Big pharma and even the FDA (because the FDA is infested with people who also work for big pharma companies!) won't admit that this simple vitamin that you can get frm food, yes from food is the best available cancer prevention and cure - the reason tehy wont back this is because they cant patent and then SELL and profit from somthing that naturaly occurs in nature Here is some good info on Cancer that is not mainstream because it doesnt generate profits for big pharma! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rook-MzIA… http://www.worldwithoutcancer.org.uk/ (the story of vitamin B17)
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There is no 'cure' for cancer . . but there is treatment and the treatment can lead to an individual 'cure'. In this case chemotherapy is being used to stop and kill any microscopic cancer cells left in the body. Surgery can remove visible or large tumors . . and radiation is good for only one area usually the tumor bed . . but chemotherapy can enter the blood stream and follow the same paths that any metastatic cancer cells may have followed . . in other words it can target any cancer in any location that remains in the body after surgery. That is the purpose of chemo .. to seek out and destroy any and all remaining malignant cells . . cells that a CT or PET or the eye could never see or find . . the hiding cancer cells or the microscopic ones. It is given to stop any new cancer colonies from starting up again. Unfortunately, there is no guarantees that the dosage of chemo given or the type given will stop the cancer . . in some cases the cancer mutates again and builds a resistance to chemo . . which than needs to be changed. So it is not chemo to fear . . it is cancer.
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