Colon and rectal cancer

Colorectal cancer is the second most common in women and the third in men.

It can appear with no symptoms or with bleeding associated or not to bowel movement, stomach pain and alteration in bowel rhythm in the shape of either constipation or diarrhoea.

Colonoscopy and biopsies are, in most cases, the tests that will confirm the diagnosis.

Behind every disease are the fears that clash with the patient’s hopes, and our main objective is to leave the first one behind and to foster the second. This is no exception when dealing with colorectal cancer, and we therefore have the best specialists, and the most advanced techniques.

information of interest

ESGE

European Society of Pathology

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Treatments for this kind of cancer

Chemotherapy

Consists of administering different antineoplastic drugs, which act throughout our organism in the places with cancer cells. Their objective is to kill these cells, while generating the least possible undesired collateral damage or toxicity. Based on established protocols and clinical trials, it can be used at different times of the treatment plan and associated or not to the other forms of therapy.

Radiation

Consists of administering localised ionising radiations (high-dose X-rays) to tumour zones and zones at the potential risk of invasion by the tumour. It is used on selected rectal cancer patients and simultaneously to chemotherapy.

Surgery

Has the objective of removing the tumour in the least aggressive manner possible together with the lymph nodes, where the cancer cells can potentially deposit themselves. The approach can be transanal, opened by means of a laparotomy or laparoscopic pull-through depending on the characteristics of the tumour and of the patient.