what the doc isn't telling me

[hollyhobby945]

my father has rectal cancer in the 4th stage advanced. he was diagnosed  8 months ago after years of them saying it was a hemroid ..any way  when he was first tested his cancer makers  were at 182 , and the cancer has spread to  his liver both lungs intestine   and spine . yesterday they told him his makers came back at 66 so he has had a large improvement i am guessing  ...this is what i need to know ..at his stage in cancer what are the percentages  the doc  told us 12% last 5 years and another say 6 months

now they have given him a colostomy bag and said it wasn't posible any more for them to reverse it and they were going to sew his rectum shut  and use muscle from his leg to fix it

i just need some one to talk real with me  no b/s

[hollyhobby945]

thank you very much for this information....i was having a hard time finding any thing out

its not the best thing to read  but it helps to know what we are facing .

regarding my father  he has had his scan and they have found three small spots on his brain and they have him set up for more test after thanksgiving

[spade22]

I am so sorry to here what you, and your family, is going through.  Here is an article that has some statistics in it regarding rectal cancer that you may find useful.

http://archsurg.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/135/5/530?ck=nck


The brain scan is to see if the cancer has metathesized to the brain which, unfortunately, can happen in end stage cancer patients.

[hollyhobby945]

my father just had a episode that i think was a tremor , i called the emergency doc that was on call all he said come in first thing tomorrow morning they are doing a scan of his brain....why his brain when the cancer is in his rectum???

[hollyhobby945]

hello?  is there no one who can talk  to me?