Receiving a Stage 4 cancer diagnosis is scary, especially when you’re only 28 years old. I talk with Stephen, a Stage 4 Colorectal Cancer survivor, about his symptoms, what happened when treatment plan 1 failed, and what it’s like being on an immunotherapy clinical trial. He also talks about how finding out he has Lynch Syndrome affected his treatment and also saved his mother’s life. This interview is a MUST WATCH!

Colorectal Cancer Alliance: https://www.ccalliance.org/

⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️
0:00 Intro
1:17 About Stephen pre-cancer
2:10 The symptoms he experienced
4:14 How he was diagnosed with colon cancer
6:33 His official diagnosis
9:11 His treatment plan A
10:15 NanoKnife surgery
13:19 Plan B - Immunotherapy clinical trial
16:19 Enrolling in a clinical trial
18:03 What it's like being on a clinical trial
20:12 Clinical trial phasing explanation
21:20 Getting to NED (no evidence of disease)
23:24 How long the immunotherapy trial lasted
26:15 His current follow-up monitoring schedule
27:03 His advice to ANY cancer patient

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