Stage Four Colon Cancer
Stage Four Colon Cancer
Stage four colon cancer means that it has spread to other organs and tissues. These organs can be the liver, lungs, peritoneum or ovaries. With stage four colon cancer they can sometimes perform surgery and remove the liver and lungs and sometimes can remove the colon cancer as well.
Having surgery could possibly help you live longer and sometimes it can get rid of all the cancer. This would need to be discussed with you medical physician and cancer specialists to determine if surgery would be right for you.
Stage four colon cancer can also be treated with Chemotherapy. There are several types of chemotherapy treatments that can be given to a patient with stage four colon cancer. The chemotherapy treatments may help the patient to survive longer with the cancer. This will normally be recommended if the cancer cannot be surgically removed.
Sometimes the cancer can be too large and may have spread too much to perform surgery at this time. They will use chemotherapy to try and shrink the cancer to allow your cancer specialists to perform surgery to remove it. Your cancer specialist may also recommend radiation therapy.
This type of therapy will relieve your pain and will sometimes shrink your cancer. The radiation will not cure your cancer. One good way to get a lot of your questions answered is to research your cancer online. There are many great websites that will supply you with a lot of information regarding stage four colon cancer.
One of the websites is www.cancer.org. This website will supply you with information on stage four colon cancer and also treatments that are available to treat the cancer. Stage four colon cancer can be hard to treat and should be discussed with your medical physician and cancer specialists.