At 8 months pregnant, Kelly Spill became constipated and had blood in her stool. Doctors thought her pregnancy caused hemorrhoids. It was stage 3 colon cancer.
When Kelly Spill was 8 months pregnant, she started experiencing new symptoms, including constipation and blood in her stool. Her doctor assured her it was part of pregnancy.
“I still was majorly constipated. I still had blood in my stool, and it was a dark, sticky type of blood, not bright red,” she says. “I always feel weird saying this, but I know it’s important to say that it had a weird smell to it.”“They pretty much said they’re 99.9% positive its internal hemorrhoids,” she recalls. “That sounded right to me as a new mom.”
“There was a pool of blood in the toilet,” she says. “That’s when I was like, ‘Something’s not right.’” “She was like, ‘Oh, you need to get a colonoscopy, don’t you?’ And I said, ‘Yes, 100% I need a colonoscopy,’” Spill says.“I found out that I had a tumor,” she says. “It was a very weird feeling because I knew at that point something wasn’t right. I knew it wasn’t going to be good. But I didn’t get upset until I left that room.”
“I didn’t know that I was only the fourth person in the country on the drug,” she says. “I knew the side effects and knew that it sounded a lot better than chemotherapy, radiation and surgery.”In some colorectal cancers, the tumor has a genetic mutation called a mismatch repair deficiency, and immunotherapy works well in treating those cancers, Dr. Andrea Cercek, medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, says.
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