Official Diagnosis

I met with the Medical Oncologist today and he gave us the official diagnosis...

Stage IV - Rectal Signant Ring Cell Adenocarcinoma, metastasized to the peritoneal cavity.

Apparently I am pretty special because the age of the average rectal cancer patient is 70+ years old. I am even more special because of this Signant Ring Cell feature of the tumor. I guess less than 1% of  Adenocarcinoma tumors are classified as Signant Ring Cell. Unfortunately, this Signant Ring Cell stuff isn't all that lucky, because they are typically characterized as being more aggressive. Turns out that the spreading to the peritoneal cavity isn't all that lucky either as it can be difficult to treat (you have to rely only on chemo for the stuff in the peritoneum). Anybody keeping tack of the slim chances that I would get this:

1. Half the age of the average person with rectal cancer
2. Signant Ring Cell in less than 1% of these type of tumors
3. Metastasized to peritoneal cavity (typical path is that it spreads first to liver/lungs)