How long can you live after surgery for advanced colorectal cancer

In medicine, colorectal cancer is a relatively common malignant tumor of the digestive tract. Because it involves cancer, patients with colorectal cancer are generally concerned about whether it can be cured and how long they can live after surgery. So how long can patients with advanced colorectal cancer live after surgery? Let's take a look at the following introduction.

But the factors that affect these are not one-sided, there are often many aspects, such as the stage of the disease when the patient finds the tumor, the location of the tumor, the growth of the tumor, the degree of invasion, the treatment status and the patient's own physical constitution, etc. The 5-year survival rate of patients with early colorectal cancer after surgery is 95% to 100%.

If the colorectal cancer patient has a good treatment effect and recovers well, the five-year survival rate of early stage patients can be as high as 80%, and most experts believe that it is possible to reach 100%. In comparison, the survival rate of late stage patients is only about 30%, so early detection and early treatment are important.

There are many factors that determine the efficacy of colorectal cancer treatment, and it is not unilateral. These factors include the pathological stage of the tumor, the type of tumor, the patient's age, gender, course of disease, location and size of the tumor, the method of surgical treatment, postoperative adjuvant therapy, whether there are complications after surgery, etc. These all have varying degrees of influence.

The main causes of death from colorectal cancer are as follows, such as death due to tumors destroying the body's tissues and organs, death due to excessive nutrient consumption leading to multiple organ failure, intestinal perforation, bleeding, infection, etc., as well as iatrogenic death and tumor compression of the bilateral ureters.

Note: Although with the development of medicine, the treatment of colorectal cancer has made great progress, but in recent years, the 5-year survival rate of patients with advanced colorectal cancer has not changed much, so we still need to pay attention to the prevention of colorectal cancer.