“I hope that even if one person makes their case for more treatment options and it saves them, then that is why I am speaking out,” Sherri Rollins wrote.
Sherri Rollins, who is approaching 50, recalls in a new essay forShe went to the doctor and received a scan, only to be told that there was a lesion on her liver — but it was “nothing to worry about.”
Colon cancer is called a “silent killer” because its symptoms don’t often show in the early stages, according toFamily history can be a risk factor for colon cancer, according to Rollins remained in remission for four years, but was later diagnosed with colon cancer for the second time.Despite the devastating diagnosis, Rollins wrote that she “never felt doomed” even as she underwent a year of chemotherapy and surgery.“I was in remission for four years — so I thought,” Rollins wrote on TODAY.com. “You feel like you’ve got it beat. But then I began having symptoms. I lost weight. When I would use the bathroom, I would feel like I had not finished. I had painful gas.
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