Being diagnosed with colon or rectal cancer raises many questions. As the first step in taking control of your health, it's important to learn about all…
Treatment of localized and metastatic colon cancer is one of the most established and highly standardized concepts for cancer therapy. Surgical resection with medical adjuvant and palliative therapy reach 5-year overall survival rates at about 60 %. Improving data quality in diagnostic and treatment ...
Treatment options forcolon cancerdepends on several factors like stage of the cancer, type possible side effects and the patients overall health. There are several kinds of treatment that are used for colon cancer and they include: Surgery for colon cancer This is the most common treatment for c...
The American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons is dedicated to ensuring high-quality patient care by advancing the science, prevention, and management of disorders and diseases of the colon, rectum, and anus. The Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee is composed of society members who are chosen...
There are several types of colorectal cancer, based on where it starts. Adenocarcinoma.This is the most common kind, making up 96% of cases. It starts in cells that make mucus for your colon and rectum. Carcinoid tumor.This begins in cells that make hormones. ...
Colorectal cancer, commonly known as colon cancer or large intestine cancer, originates from the tissues of the colon or rectum.
Finally,BRAF-mt patients should not be considered as having a unique biology. In fact, Barras et al.25have even recently described, from a series of 218BRAF-mt patients with colon cancer, two distinct subtypes of patient, independent of their gender, primary tumour location, mismatch repair (...
Traditional therapeutic approaches such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy have burdened cancer patients with onerous physical and psychological challenges. Encouragingly, the landscape of tumor treatment has undergone a comprehensive and remarkable transformation. Emerging as fervently pursued modalities are sm...
Chemotherapy is the most studied type of systemic treatment. It has been applied in the clinical practice for over a few decades. Chemotherapy for coloncancer treatment in Germanyincludes the administration of both innovative and conventional chemotherapeutic agents with the best safety and effectiveness...
The aim of this population-based study was to evaluate the impact of regional guidelines (Piedmont guidelines, PGL) for breast cancer diagnosis and treatment on quality-of-care indicators in the Northwestern Italian region of Piedmont. Methods We included two samples of women aged 50–69 years...