They just found a 7cm mass that was “fungating villous non bleeding and of malignant appearance” in my dad’s rectum today during his colonoscopy. The GI sat me down and told me that he was very confident it was rectal cancer and that they biopsied it. He told me my dad would need chemo and radiation…
I’ve begged my father for two years to go get a colonoscopy since his cologuard came back positive and he began having symptoms. Over the last two years his symptoms have gotten progressively worse. Bleeding and other liquid leaking out of him all the time, bloating, abdominal pain, constipation, ribbon stool, etc. He finally agreed to the colonoscopy last week. My concern now is that he’s not going to get treatment. I’m also worried about it being a later stage because he waited so long.
Not really sure what to do. I’m going to take him back to the dr next week for biopsy results and next steps, which I assume is some sort of imaging. I’m just so sad and worried for him.
Any advice or support would be greatly appreciated