rectal cancer staging symptoms
every time the patient is diagnosed with coloncancer the question is i am going to survive this? so let's take a moment and talk aboutthe probability of cure of this disease. using multimodality treatment meaning combinationof surgery with or without radiation and chemotherapy, we have significantly improved the outcomesand survival of patients with colon cancer through all stages from i to iv. unfortunately,whether a patient will be cured or not is still determined at the stage they were diagnosedwith. the more advance the tumor, the lower the likelihood of cure. stage i tumor thathas not even penetrated through the wall of the colon, can expected to be cured in 93%or more of percent of the time. once the tumor starts to grow through the wall, things becomemore complicated because it's not only the size of the tumor at that point, but alsohow aggressive it is, what are the different biologies, and there is a lot of researchin trying to determine today, the risk groups and the ...