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Advances In Colorectal Cancer Treatment

An estimated 150,000 U.S. adults will be diagnosed pioneered this approach. techniques developed and/or refined at Cleveland Clinic
with colorectal cancer this year. Excluding skin cancer, it “Most importantly, we Weston Hospital, it is more common for patients to need
is the third most common cancer diagnosed in both men can perform these less only a temporary ileostomy to let the body rest and heal,
and women each year in the United States. invasive procedures while rather than a permanent colostomy.
Now for the good news. The five-year survival rate still minimizing the risk for “Preserving and improving the quality of life are
for colorectal cancer has more than doubled since 1970, cancer recurrence.” always our top priorities, and the work being done by
climbing to 65 percent, due to medical advances and early Preserving Quality Of Life my colleagues in Florida, Ohio, London and Abu Dhabi
screening. For people with localized colorectal cancer Advancements in attest to these priorities,” says Wexner. “For patients with
(stage 1) the survival rate is 91 percent. surgical care have made colorectal cancer, that means eliminating their cancer
“Colorectal cancer is both preventable and highly it possible for many while helping them preserve bowel continence whenever
treatable when we catch it early,” says Steven Wexner, patients to achieve normal possible.”
M.D., Ph.D., director of the Ellen Leifer Shulman and bowel habits and bowel The Maroone Cancer Center at Cleveland Clinic
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