Colon cancer treatment requires three primary treatment alternatives such as surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Surgery is considered to be the main option for the treatment colorectal cancer. It certainly depends on the area of your cancer on which your treatment is decided. Other factors on which it is decided to give the patient a chemotherapy or radiation treatment are 1. See whether it is spreading to the patient’s lymph nodes or any other part of the body 2. How far the cancer has enters in to the wall of your bowel. In surgical process the doctors remove the whole of your colon and rectum in order to prevent the occurrence of cancer in the future. This is done especially in some of the rare cases like inherited syndromes such as familial adenomatous polyposis, or inflammatory bowel disease for instance ulcerative colitis. Then in a process known as ileal pouch-anal anastomosis, your concerned doctor or surgeon will create a pouch from the end of your small intestine that is connected directly to your anus. This will allow you to put out your waste generally but you may have some watery bowel movement a day.
In Chemotherapy process those drugs are used which can destroy cancer cells. But this therapy used to kill the cancer cells after surgery, to control tumor enlargement or to reduce symptoms of colon cancer. Your doctor may surely suggest this treatment if your cancer has spread outside the wall of the colon. In few cases the chemotherapy is applied along with radiation therapy. There are some possible side effects associated with this treatment like fatigue, mouth sores, hair loss, diarrhea etc. so you need to discuss this with your respective care giver. You should also be aware of the risks and benefits of the treatment that would be given to you.
Radiation therapy treat the cancer with powerful energy sources such as x-rays to kill any cancer cells that may stay behind after your surgery or to shrink large cancer tumors before an operation before they can be detached very easily or to reduce the symptoms of rectal and colon cancer.