WARMED WITH "CRISPY PARTS"

Type of Cancer: Anal Cancer

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer: squamous cell carcionoma

Diagnosis Date: June 4

Stage of Cancer: Stage 2

Tumor Size: 4.1 - 5.0 cm

ER: Negative

Lymph Node Involvement: No

Radiation: Radiation Therapy

Chemotherapy: Fluorouracil (5-FU)

What I Hate Most About Cancer: the fears associated with it, the unknown, the WAIT FOR THIS TO START

What I Have Learned From Cancer: always learning, that its all around us....its not till it hits you that you realize how common it is

Things My Supporters Can Do To Help: stay positive with me. stay in the now.

Metastasized? Where?: not as of 6/04/2018

Cancer Center: WEST LOS ANGELES V.A. MEDICAL CENTER-WESTWOOD

Tips for others on how to deal with the physical side effects of chemo/cancer: during treatment.....try your hardest not to give up on your treatment.....yea- it almost felt like it was killing me but here I am

Tips for others on how to deal with the mental struggles of chemo/cancer: believe in yourself and/or in your beliefs/god/etc

End of Treatment Date: September 5

Has the Cancer Come Back?: 1st MRI NOV. 5 2018--NO SIGN OF TUMER/GROWTH....2ND MRI--NO SIGN OF TUMER/GROWTH

Anal Cancer symptoms: a week after having completed my PSA and urine tests(5/22/18), i noticed blood in the toilet and completed the F.I.T--fecal immunochemical test.... I forgot to mail it in and drove to the VA and had them give me another one, did it and that afternoon i returned it...two days later i received a call to schedule a colonoscopy for June 04, 2018. results came back positive for a ployp that was excised and also a 4-5cm malignant growth on the dentate line of the anus--right smack in/around my spinchter muscle. T3N0M0...prognosis seems to be really good as it has not traveled nor gone into nodes. scheduled to start chemo/radiation with 5-FU and mitomyacin first 4 days and last 4 days using a PICC line.

Chemotherapy Description, Dates & Side Effects: AM NOT USING THE 5-FU....INSTEAD ITS CAPECITABINE 500MG