Treating Advanced Colorectal Cancer

" Colorectal cancer or character of the colon and rectum can be especially dangerous if you spread. Dockers rate the extent of the disease in a process called staging."

" And colorectal cancer there's four stages 123 and four. These third determined based on. -- humorous -- Whether around in his fraudulent notes and whether or not there's. -- task is present."

" Stage three and four are considered the cancer. When does spreads to -- is -- three. You can think one of as one body regional areas of the sort for cancer or an infection develops McCollum. Glasnost and try and filter out the germs can't. As a way of trying to keep that from spreading to other parts of the body in state three surgeries usually performed remove the tumor and around England now. Chemo therapy is prescribed to destroy cancer that may already spread further."

" In -- sighting of patients with -- disease has been removed surgically to stage three patients can use Sox -- plot and plus private view you know program that we abbreviated is full. I'm just because it's easier to hear it and remember -- is actually. To chemotherapy -- invited -- sort of full and full -- polemic massacre vitamin B twirled. It makes private you worked. The second half and fall fox fired a few and in the ox and told fox dark Alley plot. And has quite effective arm in terms of eradicating -- about half the people who would otherwise be destined to --"

" Even after treatment with surgery and chemotherapy. Cancer and reoccur in the colon and fact. Recurrent colon cancer is -- are determined. If one candidate surgically removed. And that recurrence. That probably news ideal situation. Unfortunately in the vast majority of patients usually the current occurs and multiple sides. These are -- occurs in multiple organs surgery is not the first hour and instead many patients are treated with that combination of chemo therapy and medication known as a monoclonal antibody or biologic."

" Other biologic that is approved for use in first sign of cancer in the United in many places in the world are called to ask and by the schism. It works -- blood vessel growth and deter Amber's. We now know that this process of injured Genesis. The processor and new blood vessel growth for mansion is actually critical. For the growth not only he primary colon cancer tumors. But also critically important for the growth and proliferation. Of metastatic tumor so if one was able to choke off the formation of blood vessels and hopefully one -- actually choke off the growth of the tumor."

" In is -- and just you cancerous lesions are found on other organs like the little or -- For can be treated with surgery. So stage four cancer is treated for an assembly with Madison's. Surgery. But it's very important under him on patients with colorectal cancer who have staged for disease. All I want her to her three spot cancerous spread. And one of the realization and improvements we've made in fifteen years as hard to be able to do liver. Surgery batter. I can't Schroeder Rican or some patients with stage four disease. By removing tumors. That are spread deliver alarm clock or just a few -- Although there are now more effective medications for treating advanced colorectal cancer patients are cured. But new drugs are proving helpful in circumstances."

" I think it's important to when whenever you know I impatient with -- for metastatic colon cancer. To emphasize yes your prognosis. He's not -- great. But that. We have a number of very effective very active treatment regiments. That are available. So on the one hand we don't want to raise false hopes. But when I was a fellow in training -- you overall survival was on the order of maybe six to eight months. And now we're talking overall survival. Approaching 3035. Maybe even 36 months."