How long can you live after colon cancer surgery?

Colon cancer is a malignant lesion of the gastrointestinal mucosal epithelium caused by environmental and genetic factors. Once this type of colon cancer occurs, it must be controlled through surgery. But how long can a patient live after colon cancer surgery? Many patients begin to worry, after all, colon cancer has a high incidence rate and is a malignant tumor disease. Let’s see what the consequences will be after contracting such a disease.

Because colon cancer in our body is very serious, how long you can live after colon cancer surgery must be controlled after surgical treatment. However, if you do not pay attention to it, colon cancer will still recur and metastasize after surgery. This is the key research on how long you can live after colon cancer surgery.

Postoperative recurrence is caused by residual cancer cells in the body, and hidden metastases may also be due to failure to completely remove the lesions during surgery. Therefore, before laparotomy, intra-intestinal chemotherapy for tumors or pre-operative enema for rectal cancer can prevent the spread of cancer cells and kill and eliminate cancer cells. Continuing chemotherapy after surgery may improve the 5-year survival rate after colon cancer surgery. For patients who cannot be cured by surgery or who need to prevent metastasis after surgery, chemotherapy is the only option, but the effect is generally not ideal.

The survival period of each colon cancer patient is different, and this issue often involves many factors. It can be said that the most important factor affecting how long you can live after colon cancer surgery is the treatment of colon cancer. At present, the treatment of colon cancer with traditional Chinese medicine has been clinically verified. As we all know, from diagnosis to surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, not only is the disease not under control, but it also develops widespread metastasis throughout the body and endangers the patient's life. This is because surgery only removes the tumor visible to the naked eye, and the cancer cells are still in the body, so recurrence is inevitable. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy have great side effects, and ultimately the cancer cells are not killed, but normal cells are killed. Therefore, colon cancer patients do not die from the cancer itself, but from radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

Because the occurrence of colon cancer has caused serious harm to people's physical health, many patients worry about how long they can live after colon cancer surgery. In fact, we should not be too sad. After getting colon cancer, we just need to actively cooperate with the treatment of our physical disease. I believe the disease can still be cured.