Re: Narice future plans/Len

[Guest guest]

Len,

I have to agree with you. While the incidence and

morbidity of colon cancer can be greatly reduced by

increased colonoscopies and removal of polyps, it will

not guarantee the end of the disease. My husband was a

classic example of this. He had had a routine

colonoscopy as part of his annual physical, with

'all-clear' results, only 17 months prior to his

'advanced, inoperable, stage IV diagnosis. He also had

no symptoms until the ones caused by the extensive

liver mets.

H

--- Len Henell wrote:

> Priscilla,

>

> I am not so sure that stopping colon cancer is quite

> as simple as you thought. Just taking out the

> pollips

> is not all there is to it, apparently, because I

> never

> had a pollip and I had colon cancer and now a

> relapse

> 6 years later. My cancer looked more like an ulcer.

>

> It was so different that the surgeon didn't think it

> was cancer at first. He had it biopsied and that's

> how they found out. I had the 5fu chemo after my

> colon resection removed the cancer and 6 " either

> side

> of it, but that didn't stop it from coming back. It

> seems to be persistant. I don't mean to be critical

> but just want your data to be correct.

>

> Len

>

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