Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Colorectal cancer jumped to top 3 killers

"Special Planning" Four years ago, the 22-year-old Ms. Chen found himself when stool bleeding, originally thought it was hemorrhoids attack, did not expect the hospital for an examination before and found that colorectal cancer is the fourth, but has been transferred to the liver After surgery to remove the tumor, combined with chemotherapy, just after 26-year-old birthday Miss Chen, confidence looking forward to the arrival of 30-year-old birthday. 



 Changhua Christian Hospital, director of colorectal surgery, said Dr. Chen-chang, colorectal cancer ranked the top three cancer mortality, such as Ms. Chen on such a young developing colorectal cancer cases, in fact, not many, the average incidence of colorectal cancer age is 50 years old, 6-70-year-old is the peak period of morbidity, family history of genetic percentage is not high, only 15%, mainly, mostly caused by the environment and diet. 



 Dr. Chen-chang said that Japan's research report pointed out that patients with HI regions, high-fat diet and weight bbq, but also, therefore, colorectal patients in other parts of the United States twice, and Taiwan, subject to the influence of western culture, love to eat red meat,bbq , heavy emphasis on taste, and exquisite food, coupled with, vegetables and fiber intake inadequate, resulting in rising cases of colorectal cancer. 



 In addition to eating outside, smoking, drinking, do not love sports, there are overweight people are at high risk of colorectal cancer group, especially in overweight people, colorectal polyps were found for the probability of tumor, is 2 times of ordinary people, but the good news is that overseas studies have shown that breast-feeding women and infants, both the probability of suffering from colorectal cancer are relatively low. 



 Although there is good news, however, the symptoms of colorectal cancer was not obvious, so often neglected. For example, the shape of bowel habits or changes in stool, anemia, has been big but do not come out, or how large the majority does not clean, and even anal bleeding are symptoms of colorectal cancer, but these symptoms, in part, and hemorrhoids sores similar miscarriage of justice is often coupled with the people into a screening rate of only two, wait until after a number of patients to determine the cause, has come late and the delay time for medical treatment, doctor Chen Chang stressed that if they found blood or abdominal pain, always have to have Hospital stool occult blood tests and colonoscopy screening, if there is a family history of persons, should be moved up to the age of 40 for check-ups, if early detection of early treatment, the first phase of the five-year survival rate as high as 90%. 



 If it is determined that suffer from colorectal cancer, it needs not worry too much, said Dr. Chen-chang, the current colorectal cancer therapy are surgery, chemotherapy or the use of target drugs, chemotherapy drugs, including oral or injection, such as Xeloda, Anticancer properly, Europe Lipu, 5FU, such as drug target, Seoul would be moved Shu, stop thinking cancer, in which the drug target for metastatic colorectal cancer patients, had good results, cancer thought to disable in the first IV colorectal cancer patients, as the first line of medication, the patient survival time of up to 29 months, although the drug will target long skin rash, high blood pressure, proteinuria and other side effects, but compared with the drug instead of target is a relatively safe drug.

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