Colon Cancer Narrative

In 2000, Eloisa Casas was diagnosed with colon cancer. She went through the stages of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy and one year later with considered to be cancer free and placed in remission. On July 10, 2001, she was addmitted to the hospital with abdominal pain, as well as a fever and an elevated white blood count, which could indicate a possible infection. Her primary physisian and surgeon, Dr. Garcia-Cantu, consulted infectious disease specialist, Dr. Jelinek, who then prescribed her Maxipime as a general antibiotic and Flagyl as an antibiotic for anaerobic bacteria on July 11.

One of those patients is Kelly, an extremely proud father and grandfather. Kelly had been hospitalized after contracting the norovirus, but even though he felt horrible, he thought he was healthy and would recover after some rest. He was, after all, only 44. You can imagine his shock when a tumor on his liver was discovered by accident through a routine x-ray. Kelly was referred to Virginia Mason’s Cancer Institute, which provides patients with

There he found out he had tumors in both of his lungs that was no longer in remission. (Terry Fox,

Hi Margairia, your story is like so many others that was affected by cancer. Some of us are not educated on it until it affects someone near to use. Cancer is a horrible disease that will affect us all one way or another. My uncle that passed this week, his cancer started off in the bone. Then we were told it had spread to his mouth where it also began to have tumors in as well. The number of things that cancer does to one’s mind and body is indescribable. This pushes me more to maintain a healthy lifestyle so that my children can continue to carry it out.

When her cancer was in the third stage she had an operation. She knew all about the disease, since her husband died from lung cancer even after he underwent chemotherapy treatments.

T.C. went out for testing immediately and unfortunately the test came back that the cancer had aggressively metastasized throughout his body. His pain level increase daily and he became increasingly dependent for all aspects of daily care. Prognosis was for weeks rather then months.

In the beginning any improvement seemed impossible, yet somehow he slowly started to come back to life. Prayers, medication, and the will to fight resolved this conflict.

He had to have an emergency appendectomy, consequently when they removed his appendix he was diagnosed Appendiceal Cancer. The first thing that came to his mind when he was told he had cancer was, Platt (2015) “I’m going to die, and I won’t be here for my daughters” (p. 156). That pity party ended quickly, because he knew that he had to be strong for his daughters. They were his inspiration to fight.

There are about 35,000 new cases each year in the UK. More than 80% of

He died after four weeks of treatment, succumbing to the

Summer of 2012, my grandfather was diagnosed with stage four Glioblastoma, and given only one year left to live. He had gone to have surgery earlier that week for the removal of his progressive tumor; his condition began to grow worse. The doctors got the tumor on the first try, but it was going to be a while before my grandfather felt back to normal. My family had many more trails and hardships to face in the near future.

His friend said he had nothing to worry about, most likely it was just a fatty tumor. As days went on he grew more and more exhausted and was not acting himself. After deciding to look into another doctor he found out the news, terminal stage 4 lung cancer had filled his whole chest cavity. The doctors seemed urgent and wanted to get a biopsy to look into the tumor more closely. He was rushed to the Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne and they told him immediately that the outcome was not going to be a positive one. With that news the whole family was crushed. Questions began to fill all of our heads. “How did this happen?” “What could I have done to prevent this?” These were all questions that we had, but couldn’t be

The doctor was not shocked considering the fact Richard has been smoking since a very young age and is frequently exposed to diesel fumes because of his occupation. Dr.Johansen explained that because of his long time use of cigarettes and exposure to diesel fumes it caused cells in the lungs to mutate. “The cells start to grow uncontrollably and clumped together forming a tumor” (Cooper, 2010). He suggested that Richard immediately gets treatment for the disease because “lung cancer metastases can spread to lymph nodes around the lungs, and they can also travel through the bloodstream to other organs, such as bones, adrenal glands, and the brain” (How Lung Cancer Develops, 2016). In Richard’s case surgeons will be able to remove the cancer surgically since the tumor involves lymph nodes farther away from the heart and has not spread to other parts of the organ. (West, 2015). A year has passed since Richard got his cancer removed from his lungs. Although cancer free, he suffers from dyspnea and lymphedema. Due to damaged lymph nodes during his surgery, blockage in the lymphatic system occurred leading fluid buildup causing his arms to swell. Richard’s existence has now becoming facing detrimental choices he made early in his

In sometime of January, my father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was feeling shoddy for more than five months. At some point, the pain was so horrific he had to go to the doctors to get checked out. The first time he had gone the doctors found nothing. He went a second time, and the doctors thought the pain was coming from his lungs, then they thought it was his heart. Those were neither of his cases, he soon found out the problem was coming from his pancreas.

About a year after being diagnosed, his doctor told him that he was cancer free. He was so happy; his face was all smiles. I had never seen him so happy in his entire life. It was such a beautiful sight seeing my old mans face that lit up, he told everyone that he was cancer free. I was so proud of my father for being that strong, cancer couldn't even bring him down.