How many years can you live without colon cancer spreading?

  The number of years that a patient can live without spread of colon cancer depends on the patient’s own condition and the early or late detection of the disease, and cannot be generalized.  There are usually two meanings of colon cancer without metastasis, one is that there is no distant organ metastasis, but there may be nearby lymph node infiltration, and the other is that there is no metastasis in the lymph nodes around the colon. If the patient has no lymph node metastasis, it is an early stage of colon cancer, which can be treated by surgical resection, and the five-year survival rate can reach 80%-90%; if the later recovery is better and there is still no metastasis after five years, some patients may survive for a long time, that is, reach clinical cure. However, if it has infiltrated into the nearby lymph, it belongs to the middle stage of colon cancer, which needs to be treated with chemotherapy, radiotherapy and targeted drugs after surgery, and if there is no spread after surgery, the five-year survival rate can be about 60%; if there is spread, the survival period may be 1-2 years or even shorter.  In addition, since colon cancer has no obvious symptoms in the early stage, it is easy to be ignored, and once symptoms appear, it is late.