How to treat advanced colon cancer

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Because of bad living habits and improper diet, my brother suffered from very serious colon cancer. Because of the poor conditions at home, his condition was delayed. The doctor said that it is now in the middle and advanced stage. Next, I will tell you how to treat the middle and advanced stage colon cancer.

How to treat advanced colon cancer

First, the treatment of advanced cancer is mainly surgery, supplemented by chemotherapy, immunotherapy, traditional Chinese medicine and other supportive treatment, in order to improve the surgical resection rate, reduce the recurrence rate and improve the survival rate. We should try our best to cure the disease, protect pelvic autonomic nerve, preserve sexual function, urination function and defecation function, and improve the quality of life. Right hemicolectomy is suitable for cancer of cecum, ascending colon and hepatic flexure of colon.

Second, if distant organ metastasis and local tumor is still allowed to be removed, local palliative resection can be used to relieve the symptoms of obstruction, chronic blood loss, infection and poisoning. Radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are the traditional techniques in the treatment of tumor, which can effectively reduce the cancer body and significantly improve the survival time of patients. However, radiotherapy and chemotherapy have a lot of side effects. In the process of treatment, patients are very painful. Moreover, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are difficult to thoroughly treat tumors.

Third: biotherapy is known as the fourth treatment method for colon cancer. It is a new treatment method with the same treatment as surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. At the same time, it has achieved good clinical results. Among them, biotherapy is more prominent. It is a kind of treatment method that is known as using one's own cells to eliminate one's own tumor cells, which is not harmful to the body.

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In the early stage of colon cancer, there are many treatment methods, patients can drink traditional Chinese medicine, diet regulation and other methods. But if to the middle and late stage, the best treatment is surgery, and also with radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Only in this way can we better inhibit the metastasis and spread of cancer cells.