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  • robinvan
    robinvan Member Posts: 1,012
    #22
    Age 46, Dx 2004, Stage 4 Colon Cancer with liver mets, no family history, no major symptoms (periodic blood in stool)
    Rob
  • scouty
    scouty Member Posts: 1,965 Member
    #23
    49 stage IV, no family history and even with a colon perforation, the docs missed my cancer. 4 months later they found it with mets to liver and left lung.

    Lisa P.
  • Patti1
    Patti1 Member Posts: 109 Member
    #24
    Barb,

    My husband was 57 when diagnosed STage IV Colorectal..his father died of lung cancer.

    Please have your husband go for the colonoscopy, if we had only gone earlier maybe it could have just been a polyp .
    Patti
  • christeleb
    christeleb Member Posts: 60
    #25
    christeleb said:

    36 - stage IV colon with liver mets (I had been asking for a colonoscopy but was told i was too young, was scheduled at age 38 or 10 years prior to my mon's death.....)

    Currently doing genetic testing

    Mother passed away at 48 of colon cancer

    PLEASE have him done the colonoscopy, I should have insisted even if I had to pay for it. I regret it now, but it's too late

    i forgot...I also had no symptoms at all
  • KierstenRx
    KierstenRx Member Posts: 249
    #26
    32 years old
    Stage III Rectal Cancer
    Had been having symptoms for 2-3 years
    Family history-grandmother Uterine cancer, great aunts-stomach, uterine, and colon

    Please get a colonoscopy!!!

    Kiersten
  • christeleb
    christeleb Member Posts: 60
    #27
    rthornton said:

    Interesting ... I was diagnosed at age 35 with stage IV, after showing symptoms for a couple of months. I was also scheduled to have a colonoscopy at age 38, because that was ten years younger than my mother was when she was diagnosed. She died at age 53 (on my 18th birthday, no less!). I wonder if I'd have made it three more years, if I'd waited to get scoped at age 38. I think probably not, it was already in my liver and left lung.

    Rodney

    We have a very similar situation.

    Also if I had waited until 38, I would most likely not be here today
  • catherine58
    catherine58 Member Posts: 92
    #28
    Diagnosed at 48 with Stage 3 colon cancer (tumour the size of a "small football", 3 lymph nodes affected).

    No immediate family has had colon cancer, but two great aunts had it in their 60's. Both my parents died from oesophageal cancer in their 70's.

    Catherine
  • goldfinch
    goldfinch Member Posts: 735
    #29
    AGe 46 stage 3 rectal
    age 47 stage 4, mets to lungs
    age 50 stage 4, still have lung mets, now brain mets.
    Only family history was maternal uncle who had diverticulitis and then did develop colo cancer.
    Mary
  • foxy
    foxy Member Posts: 188 Member
    #30
    Age 43 stage 4 colon ca and met to liver.

    Cancer in family, but not colorectal.

    Virginia.
  • Sam725
    Sam725 Member Posts: 87 Member
    #31
    My husband was dx at 51 (last Halloween-scary stuff) with IIb, perforated the colon no nodes or mestestis at that time, but will have surgery this Tuesday for a spot in the mesentery that lit up on PET when he was doing his check up after finishing his 6 months of chemo.

    Mom: Stomach and Uterine
    Dad: Mulitiple Myeloma
    Grandfather: Lung (smoker)
    Uncles mom side: colon and stomach
    Sister dad's side: stomach

    Yuck! Doctor told us that our sons should start screening at 25 with that much history.
  • crazylady
    crazylady Member Posts: 543 Member
    #32
    Dx March 2004 stage 2 rectal, age 46
    have had mets to both lungs.
    paternal grandmother died of colon cancer around age 65. many relatives on paternal side have had colon cancer, beginning in 40's and older. I didn't know any of this prior to diagnosis because they all live back east and I have never met them. I had always been told that my grandmother died of stomach cancer.
    In looking back I had symptoms for years.
    My mother and brother both have crones disease.
    Jamie
  • usakat
    usakat Member Posts: 610 Member
    #33
    Age 42, stage III colon, extensive family history of cancer.
  • fedester
    fedester Member Posts: 753 Member
    #34
    dx age 46, stage II. have been bleeding for 10-12 years. had it checked and was always told either hems or fissures. son checked last year age 23 dxed with colitis. breast cancer in family.
    get the scope i wish i was told to a long time ago.
  • MUGGINS
    MUGGINS Member Posts: 35
    #35
    I am posting for my best friend/sister-in law.
    Diagnosed at age 42 Stage IV and no family history of cancer at all. She is currently under hospice care and has been given 2 weeks. I say get the colonoscopy.
    Muggins
  • Moesimo
    Moesimo Member Posts: 1,072 Member
    #36
    diagnosed, age 46, 3/17/03, no family history. I am the youngest of 5, genetic testing was negative

    Maureen
  • kathleenss
    kathleenss Member Posts: 49
    #37
    I was diagnosed with Stage 3 rectal cancer at age 63. No family history.
  • alta29
    alta29 Member Posts: 435 Member
    #38
    Dx at age 44 stage IV...One Family member stage iv dx at 60
  • AveriRN
    AveriRN Member Posts: 61
    #39
    Age 32 at DX-Stage lV w/liver mets- family hx great grandmother (on maternal side) dx w/ cc at 70 something, and (maternal) great aunt's son was dx w/cc at 44. My doc's really don't consider this family hx as not first or second degree relatives.
  • levensweg
    levensweg Member Posts: 55
    #40
    age 33, stage IV, grandfather-cancerous polyp at 80years old.

    note: Genetic testing results were negative.
  • katienavs
    katienavs Member Posts: 88 Member
    #41
    stage iv - no family history - 24 YEARS OLD!

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