Treatments for Colorectal Cancer
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Colon Cancer
The treatment and management of colorectal cancer involves lifestyle changes, medication, chemotherapy, radiation, alternative and complementary therapies, and/or surgery.
Depending on your case, the treatment goal may be to remove the cancer or to provide comfort measures if you are in the last stages of cancer.
Treatment involves the following:
Lifestyle changes
Medications
Chemotherapy
Radiation
Surgery
Other treatments
References:
National Cancer Institute website. Available at: http://www.cancer.gov/ .
Last reviewed February 2009 by Daus Mahnke, MD
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