five years ago i had bowel cancer then a year later i got vulva cancer, two years ago i found a lump and thought here we go again, it turned out to be a large cyst, i am not really the type to worry i am more whatever will be, please don't think you have nothing left to give and that you are not needed, my only child is happy and settled with his own family but as he put's it, he still needs his mum, i just read your update and i am so pleased for you, my surgeon said the tumor will probably come back, i only have half of my bowel left and it has caused long term problems, i don't worry about it coming back, my cancer did not start in my bowel so it is dormant somewhere inside me and when it decides to come back, i will put by big girl panties on and say...bring it on as that is the way this wee scottish lassie does things.