Stupid Cancer Stories: The Young Girl with an “Old Person Cancer”

I was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer a few short days before my 24th birthday in 2019. Being diagnosed with colorectal cancer in your 20s is an absolute nightmare. In a couple weeks between diagnosis and meeting with my oncology team, I got all my scans to determine which treatment I needed. Due to my tumor size I was told that I needed radiation and chemotherapy pills, then after a break another four months of IV chemotherapy. At that time, no one prepared me for the heartbreaking side effects to my body that would follow treatment.

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