Advantages and disadvantages of postoperative radiotherapy for rectal cancer

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Rectal cancer is a terrible disease, and the harm to patients is also very great. My uncle suffered from rectal cancer. It has been two years since this disease was found out. In the past few years, it was through surgery to relieve the disease, but in the market life, it has been through drugs to relieve the disease. Now I will put the relevant information on the postoperative treatment of rectal cancer I will tell you the advantages and disadvantages of the treatment.

Advantages and disadvantages of postoperative radiotherapy for rectal cancer

In our daily life, we should understand the advantages and disadvantages of postoperative radiotherapy for rectal cancer. The advantages of postoperative radiotherapy for rectal cancer: preoperative radiotherapy and chemotherapy can control and shrink the tumor, improve the success rate of surgery, and postoperative radiotherapy and chemotherapy can kill residual cancer cells, consolidate the effect of surgery. According to the results of intraoperative exploration and postoperative pathological diagnosis, more accurate individualized radiotherapy and chemotherapy can be implemented.

Disadvantages of preoperative radiotherapy and chemotherapy: because there may be small metastases of other organs before operation, radiotherapy and chemotherapy can lead to low immunity of the body, which may lead to the increase of metastases. Intraoperative operation may make the small intestine adhere to the pelvic cavity, which may be damaged by radiation in the process of radiotherapy.

Radical chemotherapy is to cure the tumor for the present, radical chemotherapy is mainly used for some relatively early staging of tumor before and after surgery adjuvant chemotherapy, in order to reduce the possibility of tumor recurrence and metastasis, chemotherapy is to prolong life and improve the quality of life, known as palliative chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is a systemic treatment, while radiotherapy is only a local treatment.

matters needing attention

For patients with this disease, we should timely correct the bad living habits in daily life, avoid contact with spicy and irritating food in diet, and choose light and soft food with high protein, high calorie, high vitamin, easy digestion and appropriate amount of cellulose. People with constipation can add honey or sesame oil to food, drink more water, avoid spicy, hard, crude fiber food, beans, garlic, milk and other gas producing food. ?