Treatment For Bowel Cancer

Bowel cancer can be treated effectively if detected early when tumors are small and removed with surgery. The usual approach to bowel cancer treatment is as follows:

• Chemotherapy – sometimes bowel cancers can be shrunk by this technique before surgery is undertaken to improve outcomes with chemotherapy treatment applied daily for four to five weeks with a 12-week break before surgery is performed.

• Surgery – this is the most common approach to the bowel and is most effective before it has spread to other parts of the body.

• Staging – once cancer and surrounding tissue in the bowel has been removed through surgery, medical staff can determine to which stage cancer has progressed.

• Post-surgery – once the analysis of cancer has been completed after surgery and the stage of cancer has been determined additional treatment may be required (such as chemotherapy).