- Shanin Derox was diagnosed with colon cancer at the fourth stage at the age of 26.
- Desrohes, which is active and eating a clean diet, was initially informed that it is more likely to suffer from gluten allergy.
- After refusing to refuse, she booked her scanning operations and was diagnosed with cancer.
A little more than a year ago, Shanin Distosh started twisting from pain after each meal.
A 26 -year -old active woman followed a clean diet, so Ontario’s family doctor is suspected of being allergic or cellular gluten. The disease, and the request for blood to confirm.
Negative tests have returned. I paid for more, such as a CT scan. Because the health care system in Canada was general, waiting times were longer. Central tomography that was scheduled to be held for a year, in October 2024.
Meanwhile, I tried to reduce the discomfort in the abdomen by eating smaller snacks. However, she was often designed, had a pen stool, and felt annoying pain on her left side.
“Regardless of what I ate, I was in severe pain, and he shouted to a large extent for help,” said Desroches, 27, told Business Insider. “I knew with the symptoms that I would not have made” for a scan, “she said.
Desroches was eventually accepted to colonoscopy in emergency situations in early 2024, but the operation – the tumor in the colon was not very large. She said the digestive specialist “could not get the camera.”
She was diagnosed with colon cancer in the fourth stage, giving the average life expectancy for a period of three years. It is part of the growing demographic for young people with colon and rectal cancer, and she hopes that colonoscopy was more routine for people under the age of 45 years – the minimum recommended age.
She said: “If I had a colonoscopy, I could arrest this even in stage 2 or 3.” “This is the most frustrating part for me, knowing that I should not be here to fight in stage 4.”
From separation to emergency surgery
Desrohes was accepted in emergency surgery after the discovery of a blockage in the colon.
Shanin Desroches
Desroches started with MRI in April 2024, which managed to reserve thanks to the help of a family friend. When it is She left the room, her family friend and GI wound was waiting for her. “They were like,” I don’t want to fear you, but we need to admit you, you have a blockage, “she said.
A The colon endoscopy confirmed the next morning that it is a tumor, which is It was immediately accepted in a six -hour surgery, which removed part of the large intestine where the tumor, its right ovaries, 13 lymph nodes, and part of the membrane that slows its liver. The surgeon could not remove large tumors on the same liver without causing the liver failure.
When she woke up in the morning with her husband next to her, the surgeon broke the news: she had the fourth stage cancer. If they want children, the doctor recommends to start retrieving eggs from the left ovary immediately, because the cancer is likely to spread quickly.
“I remember almost separation,” Derox said. Once the doctors left, she and her husband collapsed. “We had a good cry together and only arguing.”
Searching for care options
Shanin Desroches with her husband, Cody Dirox.
Shanin derches
Desroches decided to follow immunotherapy, a specialized treatment that is trained Its immune system for Attacking the cancer cells in their body, along with two chemotherapy drugs.
Chemotherapy has become complex. In Round 13 of the receipt Allergy shock, and I had to stop taking it.
She said: “It may have been the most terrifying feeling that I felt at all, knowing that my body literally closes.”
To date, the results of her treatment make her tense: her examination of CT scans in January was the first whose tumors did not shrink. She does not know what to expect her next, in April.
Meanwhile, Desroches looks for other options. The surgery you need, which is a hepatic artery pumping pump to connect chemotherapy directly in its liver, is only available as a clinical experiment in Canada – those that you do not qualify because it has cancer outside its liver.
This procedure is a more routine routine in the United States, but its oncology doctor said that the treatment may cost $ 500,000 or more when thinking about the test, establishing an American hospital, and treating any complications – which is not possible financially to it.
She is now looking at options in Europe and started a GofundMe page To treat cancer. “It is very overwhelming, but when you are in a fighting or flying position for your life, it does not matter,” she said. “You just do it.”
Focus on the future
Desroches (the middle) with her family.
Shanin Desroches
Since the start of treatment in 2024, Desroches and her family have been trying to stay optimistic.
In October, Derox married her husband, Cody Dirox, at a beach wedding in Jamaica. “I will do anything to go Back to that day.
They are planning to have children as well.
After a week of surgery, Desroches met a fertility doctor to start the process of freezing eggs immediately. “This was the biggest pain in the past,” she said. It was a nausea of hormone injection, as she was so hard to dry that she felt that surgical nutrients would open them.
After surgeries, she said she would never be able to carry her child, but she hopes that she can use her and her husband one day.
Shanin and Cody Dirox Jamaica wedding in October 2024.
Shanin Desroches
She said it is difficult to photograph her future. “It is normal when you are in this era – you are always thinking about the next,” whether it is planning a trip, renewing her home, or having children. At the same time, you never know whether she can adhere to a family gathering or whether she is going to feel a severe disease to attend.
She saves every moment with her loved ones, in contrast to her life “busy” as a nurse before treating cancer.
“I am trying not to focus on the sign of three years because this is just a census,” she said. “This is not me.”
