Biological treatment methods for colorectal cancer

People are familiar with colorectal cancer. In modern society, the number of people suffering from the disease is gradually increasing, and it has received more and more attention. Many people want to know about the relevant treatment methods, which will help the recovery of the disease and greatly reduce the pain of patients.

1) Diet adjustment: Generally, three days after the operation, you can start to eat liquid food, such as rice soup, or porridge, and gradually transition to semi-liquid and normal food. The diet should be light and mild, eat small meals frequently, avoid spicy and irritating food, avoid eating hypertonic, overcooled, overheated, and gas-producing food, especially during chemotherapy. Do not eat greasy seafood and other difficult to digest foods. You can eat foods rich in carbohydrates to increase water and salt absorption.

2) Drug treatment: Diarrhea during chemotherapy may be related to chemotherapy drugs, especially diarrhea caused by oxaliplatin, which is often more serious and should be taken seriously. Imodium or Enmecta can be given. Diarrhea during or after radiotherapy should be considered as radiation enteritis. Other mild diarrhea patients with less than 4 bowel movements per day do not need to take antidiarrheal drugs. Generally, diarrhea symptoms can be alleviated after two days of medication. Severe patients with bowel movements of 10 to 20 times per day should seek medical attention in time and receive intravenous nutrition therapy, and pay attention to preventing water and electrolyte imbalance.

3) Treatment of dysbacteriosis: stool flora analysis or stool culture can be performed. If the ratio of cocci and bacilli in the stool is unbalanced, the original antibiotics should be discontinued after the diagnosis is confirmed. If necessary, appropriate antibiotics can be selected based on drug sensitivity tests to inhibit excessive bacterial growth. Intestinal flora adjusting drugs such as bifidobacterium preparations can also be used.

4) Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment: The role of traditional Chinese medicine in the prevention and treatment of tumors is increasingly valued. Combining traditional Chinese medicine treatment with Western medicine can help the body restore dynamic balance, reduce perioperative complications in the short term, increase the sensitivity of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, reduce toxic side effects, reduce recurrence and metastasis in the long term, improve the quality of life of advanced patients, and prolong survival with tumors.

There are still many treatments for colorectal cancer. Doctors will choose a treatment method suitable for the patient based on the patient's own characteristics and related risk factors. Only in this way can it play a positive role in the disease, enable the body to recover health as soon as possible, and save the patient from the pain of illness.