by Deleted User 4018 » 06 Feb 2015, 14:22
Dear woundedspirit,
Thanks for your kind post, I'm OK, no tears really, not yet anyway. The colorectal specialist nurse strongly advised me NOT to search online about rectal cancer until we know which of the 2 types I have. She's right, I do not not want to read about difficult treatments I may never need. Surgeon says cancer appears to be over 1/4 of my rectum which was biopsied.
My question to everyone out there is how does your doctor know you don't have cancer until he/she looks inside? Cancer does not hurt. My fissures do. My CRS told me I don't seem to have the usual risk factors for fissures (never had kids, eat wholegrain veggie diet, never had a day without a bowel movement, do not drink alcohol at all and have never smoked). Neither do I have risk factors for rectal cancer (unless I'm HIV+ and don't know it). Go figure eh?