Although most people already faint when they hear the word cancer, what you really don’t want to hear is a stage 4 cancer.
Stage 4 colon cancer means that the colon cancer has spread to other organs, generally that’s to the liver but it might as well go to the lungs or any other organ.
Most likely father’s metastatic liver cancer with unknown primary would have originated form colon cancer. But because a colonoscopy couldn’t be performed well due to a twist in the colon, we never heard the real answer to this question.
Yet we couldn’t be bothered much whether father would have had colon cancer or lung cancer (as he used to smoke when he was younger) or any other cancer for that matter, as a stage 4 cancer normally has no cure. For sure there is not much hope to go for chemotherapy if you are already 75 years old like in our father’s case. Rest assure: chemotherapy kills whatever it comes across to: both healthy cells as cancer cells. At 25 you can fight these utterly toxic chemicals, at 75 your body doesn’t have that much strength left…
Read more about stage 4 colon cancer in colon cancer staging.