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Biotech / Medical : Share your aches,pains,experiences,joys and cures.
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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (258)4/2/2007 6:56:59 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) of 1564
 
RDW -

In a way, a fast-growing tumor is a good thing, at least once you've discovered it. The fast-growing ones respond best to chemotherapy and radiation. That's because both chemo and radiation work by attacking cells as they divide. The more often they divide, the more the therapy affects them.

My colon tumor was very fast growing. I was never told exactly how big it was, but the doctor said she was shocked to see something that big after I had had a completely clear colonoscopy only three years before.

After six weeks of combined chemo and radiation, followed by a rest period of eight weeks, during which I was assured that the therapies would still be working, it had shrunk down to a one centimeter spot on the colon wall.

They still removed that section of the colon, which had been damaged by the radiation, and the surrounding lymph nodes.

Just sharing my experience in case it helps.

- Allen
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