chemo after surgery

sheepy7
sheepy7 Member Posts: 1
in Anal Cancer #1

I had my surgery a week ago, have a tempory ileostomy.

The pathology came back with a complete reversal, the surgeon says I don't need the second round of chemo, but the oncologist wants me to do it.

The cancer came back a stage 2

Any thoughts?

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  • eihtak
    eihtak Member Posts: 1,473 Member
    edited September 2016 #2
    sheepy7

     

     

    Hi,

    Firstly welcome to our group yet so very sorry to have to say that to yet one more person!

    I am confused on "The pathology came back with a complete reversal...." do you mean that the report did not find cancer?? I myself have 100% confidence in both my surgeon and my oncologist (was dx with Stage 3b anal cancer 5 1/2 years ago) but my surgeon is just that, he studied anatomy and how to treat it through surgery, my oncologist studied cancer and is educated on how to treat it in a variety of specific ways as well as the use of adjuvent therapies that I think of as "added insurance"...... I did have a recurrance in 2015 of my anal cancer as mets to my lung, and although it appears that the mass was cotained in one lobe and the lobe was surgically removed, I followed with chemo to aid in the destruction of any rouge cells. I wonder if this may be what your oncologist is thinking as well.

    Adjuvant therapy or care, also called adjunct therapy or adjunctive therapy or care, is therapy that is given in addition to the primary, main, or initial therapy to maximize its effectiveness. As an adjuvant agent modifies the effect of another agent, so adjuvant therapy modifies other therapy.

     

    Please keep in touch as you proceed and let us know how you are doing. I will keep you in my thoughts as you move forward.

    katheryn

     

  • mp327
    mp327 Member Posts: 4,440 Member
    edited September 2016 #3
    sheepy7

    It sounds to me like your doctors need to have a conference call with each other.  As katheryn has said, surgeons are inclined to want to treat something surgically and oncologists try to find ways to treat cancer that are less invasive.  I'm a little confused regarding your post.  If you were initially diagnosed with stage 2 anal cancer, why was ileostomy done? 

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