CancerSucks

Meet Jake. Jake recently married the love of his life and has 2 beautiful children.
Unfortunately, he received some startling news within the last month.

He had been having pain down below and had some blood on and off in stool for at least a handful of years, which each of the doctors pointed towards hemorrhoids and nothing more serious. He had a colonoscopy and endoscopy, where a handful of polyps were removed and there is a rather large sized mass that has a bleeding ulcer on it (which is the part they most likely thought is cancerous).

Also, he discovered, he has a polyp disorder that his colon and stomach are lined with hundreds of very tiny polyps. The stomach ones can be treated very well with some meds and not have issues down the road, but the colon ones will result in the removal of the whole thing and having a colostomy bag.

After tests and scans, Jake has Stage 3, N1 Rectal Cancer. Good news is that it is local to that area only and appears to only have moved into 2 lymph nodes next to it. Everything looks normal otherwise!

He starts chemotherapy and radiation on June 20th (3 days away) and it lasts for 5 weeks. After the 5 weeks he'll get rescanned to check the progress that was made. Even if it shrinks it or eliminates it, we are still looking at surgery just to eliminate more potential issues he is likely to have as he gets older. The surgery will remove part/all of the colon and then put in a chemo port. The colon cancer will not be able to ever come back as the colon will be completely removed after the neoadjuvent chemo.

Had this waited a couple more months to be caught, it could've been spread easily at that time so they all feel this was the last possible moment to catch it early enough where his pre-surgery and post-surgery treatment plan will be over 95% effective at completely eliminating current cancer and future recurrence! 

Looking at a good 8 weeks of recovery before he go back to work. After a few weeks of recovery they'll start with post surgery chemo using an IV system and it'll most likely be 5-6 months long before its complete. At that point he'll get rescanned and should be completely healthy!

Please help Jake and his family through this difficult and emotional road to recovery!