She Is Surviving Metastatic Colon Cancer

For about a year, Angela Uriano was experiencing on-and-off digestive issues. Bloating, constipation, pain after eating. At the age of 47, she chalked it up to menopause and lived her life as usual.

Until the day she was struck with sudden pain in her abdomen so severe that the Bolton resident called an ambulance. In Hartford Hospital’s emergency department, x-rays and tests were ordered.

“I started to get the feeling that something was up,” Uriano recalled. They told her she had a mass in her abdomen. They did a biopsy.

It was April 8, 2020.

When she went to her follow-up appointment with oncologist Timothy Hong, MD, “I knew it was going to be bad because there were wicked COVID restrictions and they let my husband come in with me,” she said.

It was bad.

Uriano had metastatic colon cancer that had spread to her liver, lung, and ovaries. “Dr. Hong told me, and I lost my mind.”

Click here to read about Uriano's cancer journey, and her incredible surgeries.