After 180 Chemo Treatments, Jamie Comer Readies Herself For The End

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Jacob BarkerMarch 29, 2025, 1:43 pmNews >

Jamie Comer was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer and has undergone 180 treatments over nearly a decade, and now faces the end of her life.

Comer has been treated for her illness for nearly a decade but now says she’s in hospice care as her treatment options have failed to work anymore. She was diagnosed in 2016 after doctors discovered 45 tumors on her right side and 12 on her left. “I would likely die in three to six months,” Comer, 47, said.

She began to undergo rigorous treatment, including several surgeries and up to 11 hours of chemotherapy three times a week, which estimates a total of 180 treatments over nearly a decade.

“I challenge them, I don’t just take the first no,” Comer said in an interview with ABC7. “It’s not a difficult decision. There were no treatment options that were working, and chemotherapy made me sicker so that I couldn’t recover.”

Comer shared that if she had been screened before the diagnosis, the cancer might have been caught sooner: “I would have been inconvenienced for maybe 18 months, but it wouldn’t have been a death sentence.”

“Who would ever want to leave this beautiful world? I keep saying the same thing over and over: Screen early.”

Colorectal cancer rates among people younger than 50 have increased by 2.4%, the American Cancer Society reports, and mortality rates have increased by 1% per year. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control recommends that people between the ages of 45 to 75 be screened for colorectal cancer.

Tests range from stool samples to colonoscopies. The ACS estimates that 107,230 people will be diagnosed with colon cancer, and 46,950 will be diagnosed with rectal cancer this year alone. It is believed that more than 52,000 deaths will occur in the U.S.