Jessica Weston
Patient/Survivor |
Rectal - Stage III |
Age at Diagnosis: 46
At 46 I did the FIT screening test. Came back positive. My doctor referred me to gastroenterology for a colonoscopy and they found 4 small under 5mm polyps that the removed that day and 1 large one they couldn’t remove that day. Went back in a month later to have the large one removed. Pathology was in a few days later diagnosing me with Stage 1 Rectal Cancer. I was moved to Stage 3A after surgery when 1 out of the 23 lymph nodes taken had cancer cells.
I honestly didn’t feel like I had symptoms that would have been rectal cancer. I had the occasional IBS flare up that had been diagnosed 25 years earlier…so nothing out of my ordinary.
I was just lucky it was really early stages and that so far with surgery and chemo…I am currently NED.
Jessica Weston
Patient/Survivor |
Rectal - Stage III |
Age at Diagnosis: 46
At 46 I did the FIT screening test. Came back positive. My doctor referred me to gastroenterology for a colonoscopy and they found 4 small under 5mm polyps that the removed that day and 1 large one they couldn’t remove that day. Went back in a month later to have the large one removed. Pathology was in a few days later diagnosing me with Stage 1 Rectal Cancer. I was moved to Stage 3A after surgery when 1 out of the 23 lymph nodes taken had cancer cells.
I honestly didn’t feel like I had symptoms that would have been rectal cancer. I had the occasional IBS flare up that had been diagnosed 25 years earlier…so nothing out of my ordinary.
I was just lucky it was really early stages and that so far with surgery and chemo…I am currently NED.
"You are worth all the fighting you are doing!"
Jessica Weston
Patient/Survivor |
Rectal - Stage III |
Age at Diagnosis: 46
At 46 I did the FIT screening test. Came back positive. My doctor referred me to gastroenterology for a colonoscopy and they found 4 small under 5mm polyps that the removed that day and 1 large one they couldn’t remove that day. Went back in a month later to have the large one removed. Pathology was in a few days later diagnosing me with Stage 1 Rectal Cancer. I was moved to Stage 3A after surgery when 1 out of the 23 lymph nodes taken had cancer cells.
I honestly didn’t feel like I had symptoms that would have been rectal cancer. I had the occasional IBS flare up that had been diagnosed 25 years earlier…so nothing out of my ordinary.
I was just lucky it was really early stages and that so far with surgery and chemo…I am currently NED.
"You are worth all the fighting you are doing!"
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