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At Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), we offer conventional rectal cancer treatments, along with complementary medicine therapies, to help you fight rectal cancer on all fronts. Some of our conventional rectal cancer treatment options include:
- Surgery – often performed to remove tumors of the rectum. Even if the cancer has spread to other areas beyond the rectum, surgery may be used to help prevent future complications such as bleeding or bowel blockage.
- Intra-Arterial Chemotherapy – allows high doses of chemotherapy to be delivered directly to recurrent rectal cancer tumors.
- Fractionated Dose Chemotherapy – divides a powerful dose of chemotherapy drugs into smaller doses that are given over several days, instead of a large, single dose. This innovative delivery method may expose cancer cells to the drugs for a longer period of time, while also seeking to reduce the unpleasant side effects often experienced with traditional chemotherapy treatments for rectal cancer.
In addition to the conventional rectal cancer therapies described above, CTCA enriches your rectal cancer treatment by offering supportive therapies, such as naturopathic medicine, nutrition therapy, physical therapy, mind-body medicine, spiritual counseling, and even image enhancement.
When used alongside conventional rectal cancer treatments, complementary therapies may help to reduce treatment-related side effects, improve your overall quality of life, and more. This integrative approach to rectal cancer treatment focuses not only on the disease, but on the patient as a unique, whole individual.
CTCA tracks clinical results for some cancer types and compares them with available national databases. For a comparison of results for advanced-stage rectal cancer patients treating at CTCA hospitals with those for patients in the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database with similar diagnoses, visit our Rectal Cancer Treatment Statistics and Results page.
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