Yes, irinotecan is primarily indicated for advanced and metastatic colon cancer.
“Have colon cancer, getting chemo and employer dropped insurance coverage and COBRA is $700/month.”
Irinotecan does not seem to increase toxicity but it improved response rates to 39%, added two to three months to disease-free survival, and prolonged overall survival by a little over two months.
Polyps in a person's colon are unhealthy because they can be a precursor to colon cancer. Colon cancer is very deadly and considered the second most deadly cancer.
These really are questions for the doctor and/or cancer nurse.
My mother in law has terminal colon cancer and they do a CEA test that tells us if the cancer cells are growing or slowing down, her CEA was very high when she was diagnosed once they removed the cancer it went down, then it started to elevate until after she started her chemo, that is how they based whether or not to continue her chemo or change her course of therapy
WHAT COLON CANCER SIMPTOMS ARE?
The anwer to that is 6 months
its cancer in the colon. sigmoid is part of the colon.
Colon cancer- cancer in the colon Tongue cancer- cancer on the tongue
is green stool a symptom of colon cancer
Colon cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States and the second leading cause of death in men and women. Over 136,000 were diagnosed last year, and around 50,000 of these cases were fatal.
She was diagnosed with Colon Cancer.