Page 1 of 1: Treatmentof anal cancer

saleem199 · Credits: 720 My Scrapbook

- Anal cancer is BEST treated by CHEMOTHERAPY + RADIOTHERAPY because:

- It gives better cure rate than surgery

- Usually anal sphincter and fecal continence is preserved

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denim · Credits: 186 My Scrapbook

if is is stade 4 so yes/ if no meta/ not in lymph nodes must DELETE the tumor (surgery)
NB: and what about tumor stenosis , treated also with Chemio/Radiotherapy ?

drrkkumar80 · Credits: 792 My Scrapbook

tell about staging also

denim · Credits: 186 My Scrapbook

Surgery is the mainstay of treatment for colorectal cancer. Unfortunately, despite the improvements in surgical and anaesthetic techniques and the increase in operability rates, 5-year survival rates have remained relatively static over the last 50 years. Improvement in survival is only likely to be achieved, therefore, with the use of adjuvant therapy.
Provided distant metastases have been excluded, the aim should be to make as curative an excision of the tumour as is possible. This entails excision of the colon or rectum bearing the carcinoma, together with the associated draining lymph nodes. If the lesion appears to extend into local structures, these should be excised en bloc if at all feasible. After excision, function must be restored to as near normal as possible.
Even if it is considered that an operation is only likely to be palliative, excision of the primary tumour should nearly always be attempted, as it may prevent the development of intestinal obstruction and other distressing symptoms.
For patients with a rectal carcinoma who are otherwise unfit for surgery, other forms of local therapy may provide relief of symptoms
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Surgical Management of Stage IV Disease

For a select group of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, complete surgical resection of stage IV disease may be an option and can provide a long-term survival advantage. This is especially true with respect to metastatic sites in the liver and lung. Numerous regional approaches have also been explored for the treatment of stage IV colon cancer depending on the organ or body cavity involved. Organ-specific infusional therapy, isolated or continuous perfusion therapy, radiofrequency ablation or cryotherapy, surgical debulking, and radiation therapy are all technical approaches that have been used. Many of these regional strategies as well as surgical metastasectomy are discussed in separate chapters and therefore are not specifically addressed here.
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if u asked staging - there are Duke's or TNM staging.

omkarc · Credits: 5271 My Scrapbook

if its 4 th stage then yes

johnserif · Credits: 869 My Scrapbook

like the others; my answeris depends on stage...

newmohsen · Credits: 117 My Scrapbook

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drbalaji · Credits: 227 My Scrapbook

folks the treatment for anal cancer is always chemoirradiation as any standard text of surgery will tell you (Nigro regimen )....even 24th ed bailey gives u that....treatment of rectal ca is primarily surgical.......but if unresectable or if sphincter is compromised then anterior RT / Chemo may be tried to downstage the disease before surgery.....

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