Stage 4 Colon Cancer Treatment

My best friend has stage 4 colon cancer. She's only 24 years old. She told me that they are going to start radiation, what does that mean? I read about how they do it, but how bad does it have to be before they do radiation?

Just as the poster before me, they do radiation even for Stage 2 cancers. I have to get radiation for Stage 3B Breast Cancer I was officially diagnosed as cancer free but I have still have to go thrut he radiation as a safety measure. All Stage 4 cancer is bad but that does not mean that she can't beat it--people beat statistics all the time. Keep a positive attitude and my thoughts and prayers are with you and her and the family during this difficult time.

2009-04-04 17:59:16 by Cindy

tinyurl.com Colorectal cancer treatment by modern medicine is chemo therapy followed by surgery to remove the section of colon that is cancerous ...

Wheter surgery or chemotherapy?

Else suggestion, please?

Thanks
some how there is a puncture in the liver
Thanx a lot ;)
Thank you for the answer Grizzler..... I appreciated it much.
What is the % chances of success in Colon Cancer Treament?
Thanks heckkon.... :)
Thank you Yagen :)

The below suggestions highlight why internet searches can be harmful to people. Unfortunately, the likelyhood is that with stage 4 (Dukes D) colonic cancer, there will be no curative treatment. It has spread to other organs, most commonly the liver, but also the lungs and potentially the bones. The latter two are less common, but are more common in rectal cancers.

Treatment options. Most of the time the primary bowel tumour will be removed, mainly to prevent the chance of obstruction of the bowel, which can obviously cause major problems. At the operation, the extent of the liver mets will also be assessed, sometimes using intra-operative USS, other times just manually feeling the liver. If there is a solitary lesion, or multiple lesions in one lobe of the liver, then there is a chance of curative treatment.

An MRI will usually be performed as it gives finer detail of the liver and ensures there are no other smaller mets not visible on CT or other modes of imaging. Post bowel surgery, normally give chemotherapy (several regimens available) and then re-scan to see if the liver disease has changed in the interval. If it is still deemed operable, then hepatectomy may be possible if there is enough residual liver left.

If as is most often the case, liver surgery is not possible, then post resection chemotherapy will be offered, with the hope of improving the survival.

If bowel surgery is not an option, then palliative chemotherapy will be offered, sometimes with radiotherapy depending on the site of the tumour, and the symptoms.

2008-06-30 03:22:33 by Khamirul Bin Mataree

MY FATHER HAS BEEN TREATED W/ CHEMO FOR ALMOST A YEAR. SPREAD TO LIVER AND LYMPH NODE. IT IS INOPERABLE THEY ARE STILL DOING CHEMO. THERE ARE ALOT OF OPTIONS

I think you father has had a hard time with so much chemotherapy and I think that he should start looking elsewhere. There are cures for cancer but they are all actively suppressed. Go to my website and see how we cured my wife of stage 4 ovarian cancer. She is fine today and the cancer is long gone, 7 years after diagnoses.

2008-04-18 18:34:31 by Nic

Probably far more stage 4 colon cancer patients survive than you think. There is a common misconception that if you have stage 4 cancer than it is fatal. This is wrong. Stage 4 is difficult to treat because the disease has metastasized to other parts of the body. But, it can be treated and there are survivors.

Far more important for successful treatment is the age and overall health of the patient at diagnosis. Much too will depend on circumstances that happen during treatment . . how does the patient respond, does he stay on schedule, is he a candidate for surgery, clinical trials, experimental treatments, the patients attitude, and the skill of the oncologist.

Survival is a very individual thing, and almost always has nothing to do with statistics.

For personal information concerning this disease I would suggest joining a support group. They are better prepared to give you good solid advice about your situation:

Colon Cancer Discussion List
http://listserv.acor.org/archives/colon. html

And, for your own information you can read over the NCCN clinical guidelines for colon and rectal cancer:

Colon and Rectal Cancer Treatment Guidelines for Patients
http://www.nccn.org/patients/patient_gls /_english/_colon/contents.asp

2007-03-15 04:13:04 by Joyce W

CANCER: There's a new Swedish study which shows that human breast milk kills cancer. On the news this guy who drank human breast milk (with a prescription) beat cancer. It was discovered by Swedish scientists that human breast milk (spilled into a petri dish) kills cancer. People who drink it have had some success in fighting off cancer.

You need a prescription and it's about $3 an ounce at a breast milk bank, but it works.

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/2006 1209/bob8.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/418769 7.stm

2008-01-06 07:41:27 by danmoskowitz2003