How is rectum cancer treated early?

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Now, the specific risk factors of rectal cancer are not very clear, but generally speaking, the incidence of rectal cancer is likely to be directly related to social environment, eating habits, genetic factors and so on. In addition, attention should be paid to rectal polyps, which is also a high risk factor for rectal cancer. At present, it is generally recognized that animal fat and high protein intake are the key factors causing rectal cancer disease. Therefore, in the usual diet structure, we should pay attention to the influence of diet structure.

How is rectum cancer treated early?

The most common treatment of rectal cancer is surgery. Of course, the comprehensive treatment of postoperative and preoperative chemotherapy and radiotherapy is also very important. The purpose of preoperative adjuvant therapy is to improve the success rate of surgical resection, and the postoperative effect is to reduce the recurrence rate.

Radiotherapy plays a key role in the treatment of rectal cancer. Specifically, it is mainly aimed at the treatment of locally late middle and low rectal cancer. If preoperative concurrent radiotherapy or chemotherapy followed by surgery, the survival time is longer than surgery followed by radiotherapy.

The possibility of postoperative recurrence of colorectal cancer is very large, mainly refers to the local recurrence of the lesion, and generally there is no recurrence or metastasis of other parts of the case, mainly radiotherapy is the most common, the purpose is to temporarily control the patient's condition, or relieve symptoms.

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Postoperative pathological staging of rectal cancer is very important. Chemotherapy is generally recommended after surgery. The purpose of chemotherapy is to reduce the probability of recurrence. Under normal circumstances, postoperative chemotherapy is recommended. The total chemotherapy time is half a year.