How To Treat Colon Cancer

Currently colon cancer using combination therapy, including surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and others.

1 Surgery: Surgery is the main treatment for colon cancer. Stage 0 colon cancer treated with surgery, chemotherapy and preoperative and postoperative radiotherapy can be added or traditional Chinese medicine.

2 Radiotherapy and chemotherapy: preoperative radiotherapy / chemotherapy can make the lesions shrink, increasing the effects of the operation. Postoperative radiotherapy / chemotherapy to kill the remaining lesions and reduce the recurrence and metastasis. For patients with advanced-stage colon cancer, chemotherapy can be used as a palliative treatment, improve patient quality of life and prolong survival time. However, radiotherapy and chemotherapy for patients with nausea, vomiting and other side effects were evident.

3 Targeted therapy: molecular targeted therapy is a new method of treatment, and have proven to be effective, according to the different parts of the tumor, targeted anticancer drugs to kill cancer cells and thus play a role, the impact on small normal tissue. Compared with traditional chemotherapy, targeted therapy fewer side effects.

4. Chinese Medicine: as one of the steps of comprehensive treatment, used in patients not suitable for surgery and patients who experienced recurrence after radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

5. Therapeutic intervention: refers to the exposure of the lesion does not occur surgery, blood vessels, skin, a few millimeters in diameter to make a small channel or pipe that is the body, the image (angiography, fluoroscopy, CT, MR, ultrasound) under the guidance of treatment local treatment for traumatic lesions minimal. Therapeutic intervention with minor injuries, simple, safe, effective, fewer complications and a hospital stay is shorter.

6. Photodynamic Therapy: Photodynamic therapy is the use of Photosensitizers and efficient laser to destroy cancer cells, is a noninvasive therapy. This therapy is completely different from surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy, is a fast developing new therapies and can be applied to the clinical treatment of colon cancer.

How to prevent colon cancer

Prevention of colon cancer first start of the diet.

- First of all manage your diet, a reasonable combination, intake of vitamins and trace elements, eat high-protein, high-fat, high-calorie foods.
- The second should be noted that you should leave the bad habit. Such as smoking, drinking, staying up all night, overeating, etc.
- Third, we must pay attention to is to actively treat constipation, ulcerative colitis, ulcers and other common polypoid bowel disease.
- Fourth, we must pay attention to is to actively exercise, persistence, and increase immunity.

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How To Diagnose Colon Cancer

With the increase in medical technology, current clinical diagnostic methods for colorectal cancer increases, including the following manner:

1. X-ray examination including complete gastrointestinal barium meal and barium enema. In colon cancer patients with a barium enema is right. For smaller lesions can also be found in the intestinal gas injection to gas double contrast barium, check either.

2. Colonoscopy

Sigmoidoscopy: straight type, up to 30 cm, easy to examine, biopsy can be performed with direct vision, suitable for checking the following sections of the sigmoid lesions.

Colonoscopy: 120-180 cm long, can be bent, can be observed throughout the intestine, to make electricity, coagulation and biopsy can detect early lesions. It is difficult to diagnose the current state examination can be used for this check.

3. Ultrasound, CT scans: Relationship location, size, and relationship to surrounding tissue, lymph nodes and liver metastases determine the specific figures.

4. CEA: carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) has been measured generally, bowel cancer is the most important examination of colon cancer. Generally considered to evaluate the therapeutic effect and prognosis valuable and sustainable. Determination of serum CEA can be used to observe the effects of surgery or chemotherapy.

If the patient has been diagnosed with cancer, doctors must determine the stage of colon cancer. Doctors need to conduct additional tests to determine the stage of cancer. Knowing the stage of the cancer, it is important to determine the best method of treatment.

Stage 0: The cancer at an early stage, cancer cells are only in the innermost lining of the intestine.
Stage I: Cancer invades many areas of the intestinal wall.
Stage II: Colon cancer has spread beyond the scope of the surrounding tissue, but does not spread to the lymph nodes.
Stage III: Cancer has spread to the lymph nodes, but has not spread to other parts of the body.
Stage IV: The cancer has spread to other body parts. The large intestine is easy to spread to the liver and lungs

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Colorectal Cancer (Colon Cancer)

Colorectal cancer is a common malignancy in the gastrointestinal tract, and the third most common cancer, colon cancer patients every new year around 1,230,000 in the whole world. For the majority of the age of onset of 40 years, 30 years of age account about 15% of events. See more males to female ratio of 2-3: 1.

The main symptoms of colon cancer

There is no obvious early symptoms of colon cancer. With the progression of the disease can occur irritation, and changes in bowel habits, it can be seen as diarrhea or constipation, sometimes alternating diarrhea and constipation, and abdominal pain are common.

Secondly, colon tumors also cause symptoms of bloody stools without pain, usually the amount of blood is not a lot, sometimes bright or dark red, bleeding usually occurs intermittently, as if the position of the tumor is rather high, the blood mixed with the stool, sometimes bloody stools and also slimy.

With the passing of the disease, so that the spread of the tumor into the bowel lumen stenosis caused by intestinal obstruction, the patient's first symptoms of bloating, abdominal discomfort, and paroxysmal abdominal pain, hyperactive bowel sounds, constipation or stool into thin (shaped like a pencil) and flatulence and water stops.

Advanced stage colon cancer often affects surrounding tissues and organs, such as the bladder and prostate and other nearby tissues, causing urinary frequency, urgency and dysuria. When the tumor invasion of the lumbosacral plexus and the lumbar sacral pain occur.

Causes of Colon Cancer:

1. Genetics: Colon cancer has a certain genetic factors, family history of colon cancer are more prone to this disease. Some intestinal adenoma is an autosomal dominant inheritance, high heritability.

2. Diet: In addition to some of the foods that contain nitrites, colon cancer is a cause of long-term food with high fat is the main reason.

3. Bowel disorders: acute and chronic intestinal inflammation, intestinal polyps, ulcers and other digestive disorders, which damage the function of the intestine, which can cause colon cancer.

4. Other diseases: Schistosomiasis and other parasitic diseases, can cause damage to the intestinal mucosa, causing ulcers, inflammation, there adenomatoid hyperplasia, and induce colon cancer.

5. Micronutrient deficiencies: Particularly molybdenum, will increase the risk of bowel cancer.

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