Rectal cancer spread of lymphatic contract associated age
The results of this study suggest that presented to the annual meeting of the American Society for radiation therapy need care doctors examine patients with rectal cancer from persons under the age of 50 years to see how well the spread of the disease to other places far from the rectum.
Once the cancer spreads to reach to the lymphatic nodes become more susceptible to re-emerge in the pelvic area eradicated after surgery. In this case becomes subjecting the patient to treat chemical and preoperative radiotherapy need to reduce those risks. For this prior to surgery to remove cancerous tumors of the rectum study suggests that doctors examine the patient well through MRI or ultrasound to make sure you do not spread the disease elsewhere in the private lymphatic nodes.
The researchers suggest the status of Fox Shas Cancer, Pennsylvania to the need to examine patients with rectal cancer, to make sure it is absent from lymphatic nodes of any trace of cancer before the start of treatment, especially with younger patients and the most vulnerable to the spread of the disease away from its original position.
He says Meyer: "This is the first study to indicate the existence of a relationship between age and risk of rectal cancer of the contract lymphatic," adding that the idea of this study came from the observation colleague noted that two patients for rectal cancer of young and stages the first of the disease suffered from the spread of the disease to contract lymphatic unexpectedly. Accordingly, the researchers decided to start a study to explore the effect of the age of the patient on the spread of the disease.
Researchers to examine an extensive database for cancer patients who were treated at the National Cancer Institute in America. And reviewed the history of the disease for more than 56 thousand patients rectal cancer between 1988 and 2008, approximately 2% of patients aged between 20 and 39 years and 7.5% of them were in the fifth decade of life.
And in general show that younger patients were more vulnerable to the spread of the disease in the lymphatic nodes regardless of the stage of the disease.
It is not yet clear why the effect of age can increase the risk of spread of the disease in the lymphatic nodes, but the researcher thinks that the quality of the cancerous tumor that affects young patients be biologically different from that which affects older patients makes it more vulnerable to the spread.
Hence researcher finds need for doctors to work on the examination of patients with rectal cancer of young people accurately to make sure you do not spread the disease to the lymphatic nodes before thinking about making hurtful lumpectomy so as not to miss the opportunity to provide chemical and radiological treatment of the patient before surgery.[Pin It]
