Colorectal Cancer Treatment Options
Sunday, February 28th, 2010To see how the doctors for the treatment of colorectal cancer is the first stage of cancer. This can be used in three systems: Dukes, Astle-Coller and Av / TNM done.
Classification of cancer AJC / TNM is:
0 Stadium: the influence of cancer only the innermost layer of the colon or rectal lining. Light is a surgery to remove polyps and tumors. You do not need further treatment.
Stage I: cancer has spread deep intoinner lining of the colon and rectum, but has not yet broken through the wall of the colon. Treatment is recommended surgery without additional treatment after surgery.
Phase II: the tumor had broken through the wall of the colon, but has not spread to the lymph nodes yet. Surgery and chemotherapy or radiotherapy is indicated is necessary in some cases.
Stage III: Lymph nodes affected by cancer. In colon cancer chemotherapy is necessary, after surgery, in rectal cancer chemotherapy or radiotherapy is done before or after surgery.
Stage IV: cancer has spread and affected other organs like the lungs and liver. In this case, chemotherapy and radiotherapy can be used to avoid blocking the rectum. Sometimes you will need surgery for crops other relevant bodies removed.
Surgery for colon cancer includes the removal of part of the tumor> Reconnect the colon and then the two ends of the colon. Furthermore, the limfkliere neighbors and a part of normal tissue removed. Some of the early stages of colon cancer colonoscopy can be resolved. The patient will recover after a period that varies with age, general health and the extension of Cancer.
Surgery for colorectal cancer will be made after chemotherapy, and radiotherapy if the tumor is in an advancedphase.
If the cancer is caused by polyps they need through a process called polypectomy removed. A local excision may be in other cases to be made, and remove superficial tumors of the inner layer of the rectum, along with some of the health facility in the neighborhood. Often, a low anterior resection performed to treat colon cancer, but cancer should not be positioned very close to the anal sphincter. Other solutions are abdominal resection, and in more desperatewhere the other bodies involved in pelvic evisceration should be used.
Check regularly checkup and your doctor to see for the first symptoms of cancer of the colon-rectum, you can treat the cancer early, in order to avoid serious complications during therapy and recover more quickly from illness.