What are the treatments for rectal cancer lymph node metastasis?

Rectal cancer is located very low, which has a great impact on treatment. Whether the anus can be retained during surgery is still a big problem. The examination of rectal cancer requires many steps, including rectal examination, microscopic examination, chest CT and other examinations to determine the patient's condition and whether the cancer cells have spread and metastasized. What are the treatments for rectal cancer lymph node metastasis? Regarding this issue, let's take a closer look.

First, surgical treatment. So far, surgical treatment is still the only cure for colorectal cancer. That is to say, to eradicate this disease, surgical treatment is still necessary, so surgical treatment is the main means.

Second, surgery alone is not enough to completely cure some patients, especially those in the middle and late stages of the disease. Some patients must be treated with chemotherapy as an adjuvant. Chemotherapy is what we generally call drug therapy, which includes traditional chemotherapy drugs and some new targeted therapies.

The third is radiotherapy, which is mainly used for local radiotherapy for patients with rectal cancer.

Surgical treatment is suitable for patients whose local lesions can be removed or need to be removed. Patients in the early and middle stages are treated with comprehensive treatment mainly based on surgery, while patients in the late stages are treated with comprehensive treatment mainly based on drug therapy. Therefore, the treatment of diseases at different stages is different. However, for some colorectal cancer patients, even if metastasis occurs, the primary lesion may still need to be removed.

There are three treatments for rectal cancer: surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. Surgical treatment can be divided into radical surgery and palliative surgery. Currently, the treatment of rectal cancer patients is mainly surgical, supplemented by other treatments. Since rectal cancer is difficult to cure and the possibility of recurrence is very high, prevention is still very important.