Question for anyone with rectal cancer

Devasted
Devasted Member Posts: 185
edited March 2014 in Colorectal Cancer #1
Any idea what nonspecific rectal wall thickening might indicate?
Damage from radiation?

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  • Buzzard
    Buzzard CSN Member Posts: 3,043 Member
    #2
    That would be my guess
    Radiation or surgery scar tissue growth
  • KathiM
    KathiM CSN Member Posts: 8,028 Member
    #3
    More than likely....
    Have you asked your rad/oncologist?

    Hugs, Kathi
  • Devasted
    Devasted Member Posts: 185
    #4
    KathiM said:

    More than likely....
    Have you asked your rad/oncologist?

    Hugs, Kathi

    Thanks
    We have an appointment with the Onc. monday am..
    I'm reading the rad. report like Buzzard told me not too, again.

    Thanks for the input...
  • lesvanb
    lesvanb CSN Member Posts: 905
    #5
    likely from radiation
    I also have this and my radiation and medical oncologist attribute it to radiation (done June'08 for me).

    Hope this helps, Leslie
  • PGLGreg
    PGLGreg CSN Member Posts: 731
    #6
    I have no idea, though I had
    I have no idea, though I had it. It turned up on the radiologist's report on a CT scan, and the radiologist recommended a colonoscopy. I had the colonoscopy, but my gastroenterologist said he saw no sign of the rectal wall thickening. Two CT scans later, the radiologist reported that the thickening was no longer present. So, I had a brush with, uh, something.

    --Greg

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