Colorectal Cancers - Therapy and Prognosis

Premise

Colon cancer, represented mainly by "colon adenocarcinoma, is a neoplasm whose curability basically depends on its extension:

• if the tumor is confined to the intestinal wall, the treatment has a considerable chance of success and recovery is a "more than concrete" hypothesis;
• if the tumor is extended to the regional lymph nodes and to organs near and far from its place of origin, healing is mostly impossible, and the therapeutic choice is inevitably reduced to symptomatic and palliative treatments, aimed at improving, as far as possible, the patient quality of life.

Therapy

Colon cancer therapy is strictly dependent on some factors, which, starting with the most important and decisive, are: the stage of the malignant neoplasm (see dedicated table), the site of the tumor mass and the general state of health of the patient (age, presence of other pathologies, previous surgery etc.).
Currently, the treatment options available to colon cancer patients are:

• Surgical therapy;
• Radiotherapy;
• Chemotherapy;
• The so-called "targeted therapy".