Rectal Cancer Treatments
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Treating Rectal Cancer
At Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), we offer a powerful range of rectal cancer treatment options, including conventional treatments like surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy, combined with complementary and alternative cancer therapies.
As a rectal cancer patient at CTCA, your care team will work closely with you to evaluate your unique needs. Based on this evaluation, your care team will determine the most appropriate combination of traditional and complementary rectal cancer therapies for you.
Some of the rectal cancer treatment options available at CTCA include the following:
Rectal Cancer Surgery is the oldest form of cancer treatment and continues to play an important role in the treatment of rectal cancer. Some types of surgery for rectal cancer include:
Rectal Cancer Chemotherapy uses powerful anti-cancer drugs that can destroy cancer cells by impeding their growth and reproduction. Since chemotherapy is often associated with negative side effects, CTCA offers innovative new chemotherapy delivery methods, such as the ones below, designed to help make chemotherapy treatments more tolerable:
Rectal Cancer Radiation Therapy may be used may be used alone, or in combination with other forms of conventional cancer treatment such as surgery or chemotherapy. CTCA cancer hospitals offer the following new developments in radiation therapy for rectal cancer:
- TheraSphere®
- High Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy
- Tomotherapy® Highly Integrated Adaptive Radiotherapy (HI-ART)
- Intensitiy Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
Targeted Drug Therapy is another conventional rectal cancer treatment that works by delivering drugs to malignant cells and preventing these cells from receiving the hormones and nutrients they need to continue to grow. Monoclonal antibody therapy is one targeted drug therapy aimed at leveraging your body’s natural immune response to recognize, attack, and destroy rectal cancer cells.
New/Innovative Therapies are additional rectal cancer treatment options. Radiofrequency ablation, for example, helps destroy metastatic rectal cancer cells. If you have rectal cancer that has metastasized to the liver, this may be an appropriate treatment option for you. Some new/innovative therapies may not be offered at every cancer hospital.
Complementary Therapies are an array of additional supportive therapies that are used in conjunction with conventional rectal cancer treatments to help reduce side effects, improve outcomes, and strengthen the patient as a whole—body, mind and spirit.
At CTCA, we strive to provide integrative rectal cancer treatment options to heal the whole person, improve quality of life, and restore hope.
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