Re: Sister-in-law diagnosised with colon cancer

From: Emily (emily_at_privacy.net)
Date: 07/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:05:29 +0100

bobbi_h1960@hotmail.com said...
> We have some sketchy details, we haven't been able to talk to her or
> her husband yet. All we know is that my husband needs to be testing
> for the genetic form of this disease. What the heck is genetic testing
> anyway?
> It's all alittle overwhelming .. and I guess I don't need to tell this
> group that eh? :-|

Here's a UK perspective; I realise that elsewhere may have
different ways of doing things: I don't know what 'genetic
testing' is; however I do know that when my brother in law had a
similar diagnosis a few years back my husband was required to
provide stool samples for analysis. This was a totally
effortless procedure and the samples were collected at home in a
special sample bottle during/after normal bowel movemements. The
first samples came back clear, and my husband now has an annual
check just to make sure. The main reason my brother in law's
consultant was concerned with my husband's health was - I believe
- because the brothers had had a sister who had died in her early
teens from a simila thing and thus there was a familial link. So
far none of my children have been tested, and no one has
suggested that they should be. I don't know whether or not my
husband's niece was asked to provide samples or not.

My brother in law, I should add, recovered after surgery and now
has a permanent colostomy (a bag) which has enhanced his life a
lot. Honest, it's not nearly as ghastly as people think, and he
finds it a lot better than the alternative. He eats just about
what he wants to and if you met him without knowing what he'd
been through you'd never guess. He's in his late 50s now; at the
time of his diagnosis he'd have been in his 40s, and as I already
mentioned their sister was only a teenager. I fear chronic
illness is no respecter of age; cancer especially so.

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