What to do if you have colon cancer

The most common treatments for colon cancer are chemotherapy and surgery. In fact, nowadays, most malignant tumors are best treated with surgery, and the same is true for colon cancer. However, because the early symptoms of colon cancer are not very obvious, surgical treatment is often not used.

Surgery

Surgery is the fastest treatment method, but when performing surgery for colon cancer, you need to pay attention to the following points:

1. When exploring the tumor after laparotomy, be gentle and do not squeeze it.

2. When resecting, first block the blood vessels at the root of the tumor mesentery to prevent squeezing of blood flow and then free it from the root of the mesentery to the intestine.

3. Use a cloth band to block the intestinal tract at the place where the intestinal tract is to be cut off to reduce the implantation and metastasis of cancer cells in the intestinal tract. Some people advocate injecting anticancer drugs into the blocked intestinal tract, usually 5-fluorouracil 30 mg/kg body weight, diluted with 50 ml of normal saline, and separated after 30 minutes.

4. If the tumor is adhered to the surrounding tissue, try to remove it together with the surrounding tissue.

5. Before closing the abdomen, the abdominal cavity should be fully flushed to reduce cancer cell implantation and abdominal cavity infection.

Drug treatment

According to experts, patients often experience varying degrees of diarrhea during chemotherapy, which may be related to chemotherapy drugs and should be taken seriously and treated with drugs. In addition, patients with mild diarrhea who have less than four bowel movements a day do not need to take antidiarrheal drugs, and diarrhea symptoms can generally be alleviated after taking the drugs for two days.

Diet

The diet should be light and mild, with small meals frequently. However, you must avoid spicy and irritating foods, and avoid eating hypertonic, overcold, or overheated foods, especially during chemotherapy. You must not eat greasy seafood or other difficult-to-digest foods. You can eat foods rich in carbohydrates to increase water and salt absorption.