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My aunt was very recently diagnosed with colon cancer, and is currently in the hospital. I am very worried about her, and I don’t really know anything about this form of cancer. Is it easy to cure? How long does treatment typically take? Can your body reject or rufuse treatment?
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How deadly it is depends largely on the stage as does the way it is treated. I see patients cured everyday with colonoscopy alone. At stage 1 the 5 year survival rate is 50-95%. At stage 4 it is 5%.
If you catch it early enough the chances of survival are good.
It is surgically removed.
Then you may need chemotherapy to reduce the risk of it flaring up somewhere else.
It’s going to depend on the stage the cancer was discovered at, but colon cancer is one of the most treatable kinds of cancer. At stage 1, the tumor can be removed during a colonoscopy, since it has not yet invaded the colon wall, and the cure rate is over 95%. At stage 2, it has invaded the colon wall, but it has not yet gone into other parts of the body. This is removed through surgery, where the colon is "resectioned" (a portion is removed and the ends sewn together). At this stage, the cure rate is still about 85%. At stage 3, it has gone through the colon wall and invaded some lymph nodes. At this point, after surgery the success rate is about 60%, and chemotherapy will be given, raising the cure rate to about 75%. My chemo was 12 sessions two weeks apart, though if my white blood cell count went down (it only happened once), they would delay it for a week. They’ll start chemo about 45 days after the surgery, to allow you to build up your strength. Stage 4 is when it’s especially serious. That’s when it’s gone into other organs, especially the liver or the lungs, and I’ve seen estimates of the cure rate as low as 5%. But it’s a slow spreading cancer, so that’s why it’s very important to get checked out as soon as you suspect anything (I waited until I was in extreme pain, so I was at stage 3 when they caught it).
The chemo is relatively easy on you, compared to some other types. I never lost my hair, though it did stop growing, and I didn’t get nauseous, because they were able to give me all sorts of anti-nausea medicines. Unfortunately, one of the medicines (Oxaliplatin) almost always causes your hands and feet to hurt whenever they get cold, but that always went away after a few days for me. She will still get tired, but most people are able to still continue their everyday routines. I slept an extra hour or so each night and was usually OK.