Sanjukta Bose, 40, was unconcerned when she saw blood in her stool in February 2019. She led an active, healthy lifestyle, working out five days a week, caring for two small girls, and working two days a week as a gastrointestinal nurse in a Kolkata-based endoscopic clinic. In addition, her family had no known history of cancer.
Sanjukta
brought up the symptom to one of the centre’s doctors, who said it wasn't
anything significant but that Sanjukta get a flexible sigmoidoscopy, which is a
test that examines the lower region of the colon. Sanjukta instead chose a colonoscopy,
which is a more thorough examination of the entire colon.
“Everyone
at work was standing around me when I woke up from the colonoscopy, so I knew
something was wrong,” she recounts. “My gastroenterologist informed me that she
had discovered a malignant tumour in my rectum that required surgical removal.
I was taken aback by the fact that this was occurring to me.” Sanjukta made an
appointment with Kolkata's best cancer doctor for the following week.
The
surgeon used a flexible sigmoidoscopy to determine that the growth was not in
the rectum, but rather a little higher.
Three
weeks after the colonoscopy that revealed her bad news, Sanjukta's tumour was
removed using laparoscopic cancer treatment. The treatment only necessitates a few minor incisions in the
abdomen, most commonly near the belly button. After removing the malignant
piece of the colon, the oncologist joined the two ends of the healthy colon
together.
Sanjukta
stayed in the hospital for four days before being released to return home. She
has now been treated totally. “Everyone was kind during my stay in the
hospital,” she says. “Every morning, a medical fellow came to see me and talked
with me, and the cancer specialist
also came to see me,” she recalled.
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