"You are worth all the fighting you are doing!"

杰西卡-韦斯顿

患者/幸存者

直肠 - 第 III 阶段

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.

发布于: 6 月 19, 2024

杰西卡-韦斯顿

患者/幸存者

直肠 - 第 III 阶段

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!"

杰西卡-韦斯顿

患者/幸存者

直肠 - 第 III 阶段

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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