Prevention
There is not an absolute way of preventing colon cancer. Still, there are
steps an individual can take to dramatically lessen the risk or to identify
the precursors of colon cancer so that it does not manifest itself. The patient
with a familial history can enter screening and surveillance programs earlier
than the general population. High-fiber diets and vitamins, avoiding obesity,
and staying active lessen the risk. Avoiding cigarettes and alcohol may be helpful.
By controlling these environmental factors, an individual can lessen risk and
to this degree prevent the disease.
By undergoing appropriate screening when uncontrollable genetic risk factors
have been identified, an individual may be rewarded by the identification of
benign polyps that can be treated as opposed to having these growths degenerate
into a malignancy.
Special concerns
Polyps are growths of the epithelium of the colon. They may be completely
benign, premalignant or cancerous. The association of colon cancers in patients
with certain types of polyps is such that it is thought that many polyps begin
as a benign growth and later acquire malignant characteristics. There are two
types of polyps, pedunculated and sessile. This terminology comes from their
appearance; those that are pedunculated are on a stalk like a mushroom, and
the sessile polyps are broad based and have no stalk. Unless a pedunculated
polyp gets large, malignant potential is very small. This type may also be easily
removed at colonoscopy, by a snaring technique. (A snare is like a lasso introduced
through the endoscope to encircle the polyp at its base and amputate it.) The
sessile polyp is also known as a villous adenoma and as many as 1/3 of these
harbor a malignancy. Therefore, the villous adenoma is considered premalignant.
Sessile polyps may or may not be able to be managed with the colonoscope and
may need surgical removal because of their pre-malignant nature.
Polyps commonly present with occult blood in the stool. Since they are associated
with the development of cancer, patients who have developed polyps need to enter
a program of careful surveillance.
There is an occasional patient who develops a pattern of metastatic disease
that is isolated to either the liver or the lung and the deposit appears to
be solitary. When patients have this type of pattern of metastatic disease,
especially if there has been a long interval between the primary management
and the development of metastasis, they may be considered for surgical resection
of the isolated metastasis to effect a cure. In carefully selected patients,
long-term survival approaching 20% has been achieved.
When a patient has developed metastatic cancer in the liver alone, a technique
of administering chemotherapy directly to the liver is sometimes considered.
This is called hepatic arterial infusion and requires the placement of a special
device into the artery supplying the liver. This method of utilizing chemotherapy
has been helpful in carefully selected patients only, and currently is not used
as a cure.
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