Cancer Type: Anal Cancer

Stage of Cancer: Stage 1

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer: Squamous cell carcinoma in the anus, basaloid, and poorly differentiated neuroendocrine

Cancer Symptoms: Blood in stools, lower right abdominal pain. Frequent bouts of diarrhea.

Surgery Description, Dates & Side Effects: Tumor excision 7/31/15

Chemotherapy Description, Dates & Side Effects: Cisplatin and 5fu 9/23/15 pump 96 hours/week 1, repeated 4th week 10/21/15 mouth sores, partial hair loss, oral thrush, dehydration, loss of potassium.

Bio: Interdisciplinary artist, author and university professor.

Cancer Type: Anal Cancer

Stage of Cancer: Stage 2

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer: Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Cancer Symptoms: Janury 3, 2005 - discovered an anal fissure while on vacation; went to clinic and was advised to put PrepH on it and check back with my doctor if it did not help. Fissure would not heal since…more

Surgery Description, Dates & Side Effects: March 20, 2009 - Biopsy of fissure tissure

Chemotherapy Description, Dates & Side Effects: 5FU: 5/18/09 to 5/21/09 and 6/15/09 to 6/18/09 Mitomycin once on 5/18 and once again on 6/15/09

Cancer Type: Anal Cancer

Stage of Cancer: Stage 3B

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer: Anal cancer squamous cell

Cancer Symptoms: Anal skin tag...burning..itching...cramps....constipation ....tired

Surgery Description, Dates & Side Effects: Two groin nodes removed July 2, 2012 Anal skin tag removed Aug, 2012

Chemotherapy Description, Dates & Side Effects: Starting Aug 27th 5FU and Mito C

Bio: Perfectly healthy 56-year old woman, active and engaged, and then tripped onto my face when I heard the C word with Stage 3 on Jan 27 2012. Still working to define my new normal.

Cancer Type: Anal Cancer

Stage of Cancer: Stage 3

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer: squamous cell carcinoma with basaloid

Cancer Symptoms: Intermittent rectal bleeding during bowel movement; No pain. The anal cancer had been misdiagnosed as an internal hemorroid during a routine colonoscopy 4 years prior to the current cancer diagnosis.

Chemotherapy Description, Dates & Side Effects: Nausea and fatigue. Hair thinning and loss due to mytomycin.

Cancer Type: Anal Cancer

Stage of Cancer: Stage 3

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer: T3

Cancer Symptoms: Pain, bleeding

Chemotherapy Description, Dates & Side Effects: Haven't started yet

Cancer Type: Anal Cancer

Bio: My name is Michele and I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Anal Cancer in February 2010. I asked my OB-Gyn doctor to check what I thought was a hemorrhoid flare up at my routine pap smear visit, and discovered it…more

Cancer Type: Anal Cancer

Stage of Cancer: Stage 4

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer: Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the anus

Cancer Symptoms: Rectal bleeding, itching, sciatic pain. (thought my hemorhoid was acting up)

Surgery Description, Dates & Side Effects: Laminectomy and tumor removal of the metestatic sacral tumor. This was done microscopically (with a small spoon). Nov 2012 Wedge resection right lower lobe via thoracotomy.

Chemotherapy Description, Dates & Side Effects: 2 rounds, 96 hours each week 1 and week 5 during radiation of 5-FU. Mytomycin-C first round only. Hairloss, nausea, vomiting, 30 pounds of weight loss. Recurrence 2013- 4 rounds of Cisplatin with 46 hours of 5-FU with each round.

Bio: I was diagnoised in July 2006 at a time when I was feeling fantastic and was told by so many that "you look like the picture of health." Thats the funny thing about cancer, looks and the way you feel…more

Cancer Type: Anal Cancer

Stage of Cancer: Stage 2

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer: Squamous Cell Carcinoma....Anal Cancer

Cancer Symptoms: constipation and bloating two years prior then shortly before diagnoised itching, pressure.

Surgery Description, Dates & Side Effects: port placement

Chemotherapy Description, Dates & Side Effects: 5 FU- Mitomycin...via port - 96 hour drip lots of side effects....transfusion at end still low white count from radiation and chemo

Cancer Type: Anal Cancer

Stage of Cancer: Stage 3B

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer: Squamous cell carcinoma

Cancer Symptoms: Some blood in stool, felt something hard and thought it was a hemorrhoid.

Bio: I am 53 y/o female. ** Updated 12/13/2015--- I am now 4.5 years post Dx and Tx. The following information was the beginning of my cancer journey. Currently, I am NED. I do have side effects from the…more

Cancer Type: Anal Cancer

Stage of Cancer: Stage 2

Medical Term for the Type of Cancer: squamous cell carcinoma of the anus

Cancer Symptoms: Chronological order: Blood-tinged drainage for months, then heavy bleeding with BMs-which I "hoped", for months, would go away. A hard skin tag, change in stool appearance, increased difficulty defecating. PAIN!

Surgery Description, Dates & Side Effects: 02/17/11: Anal fissurectomy with lateral sphincterotomy. Only SE was pain. Now, I can poo w/o pain for the first time in MONTHS. It still looks weird (TMI.) This found the CA. 07/03/12--anal/rectal biopsy of suspicious tissue found during a DRE. Thankfully,…more

Chemotherapy Description, Dates & Side Effects: Mitomycin and f5u-begin 4/12/11. . . . I was EXTREMELY tired and became EXTREMELY short-of-breath (ended up with bronchitis, but I have asthma.) One of the meds, Mytomycin, I think, can adversely affect the lungs. My thyroid got messed…more