Treatment after recurrence of rectal cancer

I believe everyone is familiar with rectal cancer. It is quite common in daily life and generally occurs in middle-aged and elderly people. There are many ways to treat the disease. Doctors generally choose the appropriate method according to the severity of the disease. For mild cases, chemotherapy is enough, but for severe cases, surgery is required. Let's learn about the common treatments for rectal cancer.

1. Early stage rectal cancer is mainly treated by surgical resection. If the entire cancer lesion is successfully removed, the patient's survival period can be prolonged. However, this surgery will damage the patient's body tissues and blood, leading to a weak constitution and easy recurrence, spread and metastasis of cancer. If the surgery is combined with traditional Chinese medicine to strengthen the body, it can improve the patient's diet and sleep conditions, which is very beneficial to preventing the recurrence and metastasis of cancer.

2. Although chemotherapy is also a treatment for rectal cancer, this type of treatment generally "does not distinguish between friend and foe", the toxic dose and the effective dose are very close, and the toxic side effects are also very strong. The digestive function is impaired and the bone marrow hematopoietic function is suppressed most obviously, making it difficult for patients to accept or persist in completing the entire course of treatment.

3. Since rectal cancer in the middle and late stages is easy to metastasize and spread, the success rate of surgical resection is not high. Even if surgery is performed, it can only be used for palliative local lesion resection. Therefore, in clinical practice, the treatment of rectal cancer in the middle and late stages often uses radiotherapy, or chemotherapy combined with traditional Chinese medicine, combining traditional Chinese and Western medicine.

The above content is an introduction to the common treatment methods for rectal cancer. After reading this article, you must have a clear understanding of the treatment of the disease. In fact, no matter which treatment method is used, patients need to maintain a positive attitude to face the disease and recover health as soon as possible in order to have a happy life.