Common treatments for rectal cancer

Rectal cancer is a daunting malignant tumor disease. If not treated in time, it can kill people. How to treat rectal cancer is also a concern for everyone. Let's talk about the treatment methods of rectal cancer .

The main treatments for rectal cancer include:

1. Removing the tumor in the early stage of rectal cancer is a common treatment method for rectal cancer. The progression of rectal cancer is that tumor cells invade the mucosal layer, muscle layer and then the outer cortex of the large intestine. In the early stage of rectal cancer, since tumor cells only invade the mucosal layer, surgical resection can achieve good therapeutic effects. In the late stage, the lesions metastasize and turn into systemic diseases. The overall quality of patients is poor, and most of them can no longer tolerate the trauma caused by surgical resection. Moreover, it is not easy to completely remove the cancer by surgery. Therefore, the treatment of rectal cancer after its spread and metastasis cannot be treated by surgery alone.

2. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy are also common treatments for rectal cancer. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy are treatments that use various rays of different energies to irradiate the tumor to inhibit and kill cancer cells. Radiotherapy can be used alone or in combination with surgery, chemotherapy, etc. as part of comprehensive treatment to improve the cure rate of cancer. A period of radiotherapy before surgery can reduce the size of the tumor, so that patients who were originally unable to undergo surgery can have the opportunity to undergo surgery. For advanced cancer, palliative radiotherapy can be used to relieve compression and relieve pain. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy can reduce the tumor cell load locally or systemically, and the effect is fast, but it cannot eradicate tumor cells, is prone to metastasis and recurrence, has large systemic toxic side effects, and causes damage to the human immune function.

The above is an introduction to the treatment methods of rectal cancer. I hope it can help you. If you have more questions about rectal cancer, you can visit other related topics on Feihua Health Network, or consult our online experts for free.