Hi, my partner has been having treatment over the past year for stage 3 colorectal cancer. He has had chemo and radiotherapy. When he had his final scan they said his treatment had worked well and the tumour had shrunk so much he would need to have a PET scan so they could have a better look. Unfortunately they found an abnormality on his Prostate, he had previously had a raised PSA but they weren’t concerned as was OK for his age, 49. He had an MRI directed at the Prostate and they then decided to take biopsies. To our horror we found out today that he has a rather aggressive Prostate cancer not linked to his initial cancer in his rectum.  He had no symptoms at all. He feels totally fine and all symptoms have gone from his rectal cancer too.   The only thing he has to cope with is Neuropathy from the chemo infusion. They plan to operate to remove the rectal cancer which we were aware had spread to 2 lymph nodes and remove the Prostate altogether. 

Has anything like this happened to anyone else? We’re so puzzled how this can happen.  We would understand if it had spread but a different cancer is hard to process. Is it just bad luck?  Talk about a roller coaster, it’s gone from good news to awful news!!

The only positive from this is without the rectal cancer we would not have known about the Prostate given that he has no symptoms so he would have just carried on as normal until it was too late.