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Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth
IDK. I had a family member with undiagnosed celiac disease. He got colon cancer. The cancer was removed, but it eventually metastasized. So he didn't die of fatal colon cancer, you could say, technically. We know he had undiagnosed celiac disease, because his son eventually was diagnosed with celiac, and he had the same symptoms his dad had his whole life, without knowing they were signs of celiac.
After being diagnosed, the son got tested for other food allergies, too, and now avoids all foods he's allergic to, so he probably won't get colon cancer.
That's just one example, but I don't doubt that there are more people like that out there.
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If he died of the metastasized cancer, then he did die of colon cancer, no matter where it went. My late MIL had colon cancer. It was removed surgically, and she had chemo. The next year it showed up in her lung. It was NOT lung cancer, but the colon cancer that had traveled to her lung. They know by the type of cell. She had that radiated. A few months later it showed up in her sternum.
At that point she said, "I worked in hospitals long enough to know how this will go. Stop all treatment, let's talk about pain management and palliative care." Arranged her burial and checked out with practicality and grace, ending life with hospice in her daughter's home. She was only 64 years old.
But the part that's important here is that we found out later from her sister-in-law, with whom she was close, that she had been passing blood for some time before she got checked out. She waited too long. If colon cancer is caught early, it's usually treatable.
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