How heartbreaking, and this type of cancer if caught early can be cured. Cancer can happen at any age, and there are over 2.5 thousand types of cancer. She is very brave, however she doesn’t have the choice unfortunately.
Ulcerative Colitis is another bowel disease that can kill, it has similar symptoms to bowel cancer. Most people if they catch it early enough can recover. But a small percentage of people don’t respond to treatment and end up having surgery. It is a horrible illness to live with and the reversal surgery is often not worth going through because it doesn’t usually work out. The average lifespan of the surgeon is about 5 years before it starts to fail. Then the patient has to have further surgery to restore the ostomy and live with a colostomy or ileostomy for the rest of their lives.
