Hi! I am new to this forum and newly diagnosed with adenocarcinoma of
the small intestine. I had surgery on 10/21 to remove the tumor which
was a stage II because it had advanced into mesentery tissue right
outside of the intestinal wall. The tissue was removed along with 16
lymph nodes which were cancer free. I was very happy about this and am
surprised that my doctors still seem kind of grim. I am going to start
chemo treatments (even though as far as we know, as of this day, I am
cancer free) because of it going outside of the wall. I will have
treatment 1X a week for 24 weeks. I was told that this is a rare type of
cancer and that they do not have much data on it and it will therefore be
treated as a colon cancer. My chemo will be 5FU and Leucovorin. If
anyone has any thoughts, info, suggestions or idea as to why my doctor
says I have only a 50/50 chance - please let me know. Thanks and God
Bless.
Margie
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