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Cheryl,

The first symptom that really grabbed me was a bad pain in my colon/ lower right abdomen. This turned out to be the primary tumour. The pain became steadily worse until I went to the doctor and was diagnosed. Other symptoms were rectal bleeding, fatigue to the point where it was hard to stand up, breathlessness and a few other symptoms. These other symptoms were more associated with the spread to the lymph nodes and it would be quite a coincidence if these symptoms were the same as another colon cancer survivor as the cancer can spread anywhere and thus there would be different symptoms. But just to be thorough, I did have nodes in my groin area affected and before I started chemo I felt a lot of pain in my groin area, a little like getting kicked you know where, actually, it was exactly like getting a kick in the groin but the pain lasted pretty much indefinately. I was rolling around doubled over before I finally got some percosets. When I started chemo all the pain stopped as I responded almost right away.

Interestingly enough, there was no pain at all in my liver, yet there were multiple tumours in there growing like weeds, and fast too, judging by my catscans. This also was reversed by chemo.

Your friend should get sigmoidoscopy where they put a scope up you and look at the colon, also known as a colonoscopy. To not do so would be very foolish. It could save his life if he does have cancer and they catch it soon enough.

Syd