Is the cost of rectal cancer surgery and chemotherapy high?

There are two reasons why cancer can make people turn pale. First, cancer progresses quickly, which not only causes physical and mental pain to patients, but also endangers their lives. Second, the high cost of cancer treatment often causes patients' families to become poor or return to poverty due to cancer. For patients with rectal cancer, if they choose chemotherapy, is the cost of treatment high?

Rectal cancer is a disease with a high incidence rate. It is the most common disease in the digestive system. When rectal cancer develops to the third stage, the cancer cells in the patient's body have spread and metastasized through direct infiltration, blood circulation or lymphatic blood circulation, which will not only bring great pain to the patient's body and mind, but also increase the difficulty of treatment accordingly, and seriously shorten the patient's survival period.

Since local treatments such as surgery and radiotherapy for rectal cancer cannot effectively eliminate cancer cells and control the deterioration of the disease, chemotherapy is widely used as a systemic treatment method. We cannot generalize how much chemotherapy costs. Chemotherapy drugs are divided into domestic drugs and imported drugs. Because of the difference in the drugs used, the cost will be quite different.

Clinical practice shows that the toxicity of chemotherapy for rectal cancer increases gradually with the extension of time, and it has no obvious effect on prolonging the survival of colorectal cancer patients. Chemotherapy drugs and chemotherapy time should be determined based on tumor remission, symptom relief and treatment-related toxicity. Improvement of human body function also affects the survival of patients with advanced rectal cancer. Only with good body function and strong immunity can one resist the development of cancer and tolerate various drug treatments. Therefore, improving immune function and enhancing resistance to tumors is extremely important to prolong the survival of patients with advanced rectal cancer.