Colon cancer survival rate is higher when the disease is discovered in its early stages. In stage three and four only miracles can help a patient win the fight with colon cancer.

Here is an impressive story of a colon cancer survivor who managed to defeat the cruel disease.

Shannon Kellum, a 30 year old accountant from Florida, found out in 1998 that she had terminal colon cancer. The doctors said she could not expect to live long. The cancer had already spread to her liver, with a large tumor that can not be removed. Despite that she had no expectancy to live, she is today entirely healed. But how did she manage to become from a certain lost patient a colon cancer survivor?



Shannon had been cured because she had the chance to visit one of the best researchers in the area of cancer treatments. After chemotherapy drugs had no effect on her disease, Shannon was administered C225 in April of 1999. C225 was a new drug that was still tested and seems to have good effects on cancer patients. The drug was given once a week intravenously. Chemotherapy was still administrated. In four month her tumor reduced with 80%. In eight months she suffered surgery because the tumor was small enough for it to be efficient. Today she is completely healed. Cancer cell can remain and start or restart a tumor again. Till’ that happens she is healthy and she has won the greatest battle of her life, the battle with death.

Shannon is not the only one who has survived colon cancer. Curtis Pesmen was diagnosed with colon cancer at forty-three years old. Curtis was a health journalist for many years and had wrote different articles about cancer survivors stories and about the cruel disease that kills so many people. In Curtis case treatment worked properly and the cancer was cured. Asked about the cancer effects from a physical, financial and emotional point of view, Curtis said that the physical and emotional effects were the same for him. If there are severe physical issues there are also emotional issues. Colon cancer treatment has an important financial impact on the patient and it can be a real concern.

Today, in the United States there are some laws that can help financial the cancer patients. They give you the insurance of repairing your financial status once you are cured and your treatment against the cancer has worked.

The colon cancer survivors can give you a lesson of strength and ability to fight without losing hope. It is very important to believe that you can be cured no matter what. Today, researches have reached a point in which life can be extended if the right drugs in the right amount and combination are administrated.