TotalBiscuit diagnosed with cancer (updated) - Page 5

On May 01 2014 02:35 Lonyo wrote:
My dad was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer (spread to liver and some tumours in random other places which had spread from the liver in the blood) in December, and has his final bout of his first set of chemo sessions in 2.5 weeks (6 months of treatments every 2 weeks). Luckily it's responded well, but because it spread he couldn't get surgery.

Thankfully TBs was caught a lot earlier, so he should be able to get treated more easily.

Like people have said, the earlier you get checked and it's caught, the better off you are both in terms of recovery changes, and the treatment you need to undergo. Chemo isn't fun, so hopefully TB shouldn't need it.

On April 30 2014 23:57 TotalBiscuit wrote:
For those who don't have the time to watch the VLOG, the TL:DR is this.

It's a large mass that is either pre-cancerous or already cancerous.

It has not spread, CT shows everything else clean and the liver perfectly healthy (this is important since that's generally the first place cancer spreads to and starts to fuck shit up). Colonoscopy confirmed, no other masses or polyps anywhere else in the bowel. Surgery to remove the mass should be a complete cure, at least for the time being. I will need regular check-ups every year or so to make sure it doesn't come back, but the doctors are very confident in a complete recovery.

I encourage all of you, if you have symptoms that last more than a week, to get over the embarrassment and go and see a doctor. Colonoscopy is nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be, in the US (at least at my specialist) they knock you out for it entirely so you don't feel a thing. Doctors are professionals, they have heard everything 1000 times before, they are impossible to embarrass. Do not suffer in silence, get screened.