[livingwith]

My Story
Patti, my wife, has documented most of my story on a Caring Bridge site. She captured our journey into the world of cancer and allowed many of our friends and relative to travel by our side and make the journey a lot less lonely and perhaps even less scary.
In couple of lines, the summary is: After many months of misdiagnosis, I was finally diagnosed with colon cancer on Sept 18th 2008. Within a week, I went into surgery and a coke can size tumor was removed, metastases discovered in t...Read the full article

[veg4life]

Jude, my mother was recently diagnosed with metastatic colon cancer which has spread to the lymph system and bones. She'll be on radiation therapy for another 2 weeks before starting chemo, which will include Avastin, Xeloda, and oxaliplatin. The doctor says it's incurable with a median survival period of 2 years, although individual cases vary 6 mos. to 5 years. I don't know if my mother has garden variety late-stage colon cancer. What resources would you recommend for me to learn more?