Bowel cancer is a common malignant tumor of the digestive system. At present, the more mature clinical treatments include surgical treatment, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, etc. Drugs should be applied under the guidance of doctors.
1. Surgical resection: Surgical resection is the first choice and the most effective treatment for bowel cancer. For patients in early stage of cancer, surgical resection can completely remove cancer cells and metastatic lymph nodes to achieve clinical cure, and some patients can completely recover after surgical treatment.
2. Radiotherapy: Radiotherapy can effectively inhibit tumor growth, shrink lesions and prolong the progression-free survival and overall survival of patients. However, radiotherapy can also cause more adverse reactions, mainly due to the fact that radiation kills tumor cells and also leads to the necrosis of normal cells, which causes a variety of adverse reactions.
3. Chemotherapy: chemotherapy is a commonly used treatment method for malignant tumors, especially for patients with advanced tumors. At present, advanced colon cancer patients mainly take oxaliplatin, 5-fluorouracil, irinotecan as the core of chemotherapy program, which has a certain effect, but chemotherapy also causes more adverse reactions, the more common ones are nausea and vomiting, bone marrow suppression, peripheral neurotoxicity, and liver and kidney function damage.
Bowel cancer has a high incidence and mortality rate, patients need to receive timely treatment after diagnosis, and the specific treatment method needs to be determined with the period of cancer development. In daily care, diet can be more cancer inhibiting and cancer preventing foods. The mind should be kept optimistic to help the body to recover early.