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PAT4 Hepatoid adenocarcinoma of the colon: A case presentation. (Pathology).(Brief Article): An article from: Southern Medical Journal [H] [T] [M]
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Is it advisable to conduct a major surgery if the patient has a colon cancer adenocarcinoma? what is the recovery time?
Adenocarcinoma is the most common type of colon cancer and typically it is slow growing. However, from your question it sounds like you or someone else had a colonoscopy and polypectomy with a positive margin. If this is the case surgery is usually recommended as it only takes a single cancer cell left behind for the cancer to grow and spread. You do have plenty of time for a second or third opinion if that will make you more comfortable.
Keep in mind colon cancer is very treatable when caught early, but deadly when it is not. In it’s early stages the 5 year survival rate is 95-85%, but if 3 or more lymph nodes are involved it drops to 50% and if it metastasizes it plummets to 5%.
The hospital stay for a colon resection is about 4 days, by that time you should tolerate a normal diet. Full recovery will take several weeks as they have to cut the abdominal wall, sort of like a C-section if any of your children were born that way. Hope this helps. Good luck.
Carol Sue Leahy, 70. Colorectal cancer, mucinous adenocarcinoma, with big liver metastases which involve 70-80% of the liver, and neuropathy due ...
Feb 2007, my mom was diagnosed w adenocarcinoma stage 3. she had her sigmoid resection and for past months been undergoing chemotherapy. she's now on her 9th of 12 sessions. d med she's taking is eloxatin (oxyplatin). so far so good. she's weak right after each session but regain her strength after a week. Do u think she will survive cancer?
Your mother does have a very good chance of survival. While stage III adenocarcinoma is serious it is probably (emphasis on probably) still confined to her colon. With God's help I pray the surgeon removed all affected areas of the colon. If so, with chemo therapy to fight any remaining malignant cell growth she has a better than good chance of beating it. I wish you and your mother God's blessings.
Please note that any diagnosis or prognosis given without proper records, as well as all biopsy, radiology, lab and other diagnostic test results is suspect. I will of course keep the both of you in my prayers. Remember, whether or not you believe in God the power of faith and strength of human will can have a dramatic effect on anyone's health.
God bless
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I am a 33 Year old Female- I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Colon Cancer last month. The Oncologist is saying that IP Chemotherapy is the best option at this point. I've had the right half of my colon removed, (which included the baseball sized tumor) 18 lymph nodes (of which 8 were cancerous) my appendix and my omentum fat (both cancerous as well) and the surgeon spotted many cancerous nodules on the inside of my abdominal wall. I was trying to find information on how effective IP chemo is on Signet Ring Cell Mucinous Adenocarcinoma. Or at least research on IP chemo with colon cancer? Everything I'm finding is about IP chemo with ovarian cancer.
thanks!
Intraperitoneal (IP) chemotherapy is performed by surgically implanting a line into the patient for delivery of liquid chemo drugs directly to the abdominal area.
You need to find out what chemo drug(s) will be administered and on what schedule via the IP process. Then you can look up the drug names within the colon cancer section of the Merck Manual or other resource to learn about drug efficacy (effectiveness). Link to Merck Manual below.
Best wishes.
My dad just got out of surgery to remove a part of his colon and the surrounding lymph nodes due to some growth. The surgery was successful and we are going to see an oncologist soon. I was wondering about the following writeup:
B. Colon, Left, Resection:
-Infiltrating adenocarcinoma, moderately differentiated, superficially invasive (invasive in the submucosa), arising in a large tubulovillous adenoma (4.0 cm) showing multiple foci of severe dysplasia
-One out of seventeen (1/17) pericolonic lymph nodes shows evidence of metastatic disease
What does this exactly mean? What are chances of survival? What is everything I can do to increase those chances?
My dad also had a CT scan about two weeks ago and everything was fine with that.
It means its at the stage where its still curable. I had 8 out of 20 lymph nodes affected, and I finished chemo 2 months ago, and so far so good. It becomes more of a risk when more lymph nodes are affected, and if spread to other organs, which it hasn't.
The cancer has spread also to the bladder,colon,kidney and liver. I know that she is not going to make it. im wondering how much time she may have left 2 weeks 2 months etc. anyone have any ideas?
Impossible to tell without seeing the last images of the cancer and w/o knowing her medical history and treatments.
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Colon Cancer - Diagnosis, Causes, Symptoms, Treatement, and ...
Colon cancer is cancer of the large intestine (colon), the lower part of your digestive system. Colon cancer is the second most common cancer in the USA with equal distribution between men and women. Colon tumors usually affect people over the age of 40, with the majority of people who are diagnosed with the condition being over 60 years of age. Colon cancer may affect any racial or ethnic group; however, some studies suggest that Americans of northern European heritage have a higher-than-average risk of colon tumours.
INCIDENCE OF COLON CANCER
Colon cancer is more common in industrialized nations and in those societies where red meat is a major part of the diet, although evidence tends to suggest that merely changing your diet to white meat and seafood as in for instance Japan, tends to just swap stomach cancer for colon cancer. In almost all cases colon cancer is a treatable disease if caught early.
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