How long can patients with intestinal tumors live is related to the nature of the disease, the patient’s physical, mental and spiritual factors, intestinal tumors can be benign and malignant, if it is a benign tumor, most of them can not affect the life expectancy, if it is a malignant tumor, the life expectancy may be affected to some extent.
1. Benign tumors: such as intestinal polyps and other diseases, such patients if timely surgical resection, drug therapy and other treatments, the general life expectancy of patients will not be affected too much, most of the patients can be like a normal healthy person as life and work, and survival time is longer.
2. Malignant tumors: such as colon cancer, rectal cancer, etc. If these malignant tumors can be detected, diagnosed and treated early, many patients with colon cancer and rectal cancer can be cured, and the impact on life expectancy should not be great.
The 5-year survival rate of colon cancer patients can reach more than 70% if radical surgery is performed, and the 5-year survival rate of rectal cancer patients can also reach more than 50% after surgery.
It should be noted that patients with tumors on the intestines can improve the prognosis of the disease and reduce the impact of the disease on the patients’ life expectancy through “early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment”. It is recommended that patients with related symptoms should seek medical treatment in time, take targeted treatment after clear diagnosis, actively cooperate with the treatment, and maintain an optimistic attitude to overcome the disease together.