A Minnesota woman was told her stage 4 colon cancer couldn’t be cured. Two years later, she’s cancer-free — and says a last-chance clinical trial gave her back her life.

MASH typically develops quietly—starting with weight gain, fatigue, and abnormal blood work—and can lead to serious liver damage if untreated.

After experiencing abdominal pain and having abnormal blood work, Dimery underwent a colonoscopy, which revealed a "softball-sized" tumor and another "golf ball-sized" one, she told Fox News Digital.

Older patients whose red blood cell counts are even slightly out of the normal range are at higher risk of death and heart problems after major surgery, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

Some of them work by boosting your blood cell count. Others treat infections or stop you from bleeding too much. You can get supportive therapies by themselves or along with other treatments.

At a routine doctors appointment in the fall of 2019, Hanisch found she had abnormal blood work. After nine weeks of monitoring it, she was referred to a specialist.