What were the symptoms? What did you feel before you found out you had Cancer? I get these questions from people who know me, but also from the nurses who draw my blood before a procedure has to be done. Usually people ask the question and a second later say 'you know because you are so young'. My response is usually 'yea you are right especially for Colon Cancer, due to it being more common on people who are 50 years or older. However, my primary doctor told me in the past 5 years he has seen an increase in younger people being diagnosed with Colon Cancer. Mine is stage IV which you might say 'holy crap, what is your survival rate?' And when I say stage IV it means that the Cancer did metastasis; in other words it spread to other parts of my body other than the colon. Usually in Colon Cancer when it spreads it tends to spread to the liver. So yes mine did spread to my liver. Can you believe I did not ask my oncologist what is the survival ...