Everyone between the ages of 55 and 75 receives a population screening every two years to detect early colorectal cancer.© archive photo anp
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Marieta Kroft
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Leiden
Surgeon Koen Peeters and gastrointestinal and liver doctor Jurjen Boonstra of the LUMC will answer questions about colorectal cancer on Tuesday 22 March at 12:00 noon. This takes place in a live consultation hour on Facebook and Instagram.
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In this international bowel cancer month, the doctors want to draw extra attention to bowel cancer. Since the introduction of the population screening in 2014, early forms of colorectal cancer are increasingly detected.
Colon surgery is still an important part of colon cancer treatment. The disadvantages of bowel surgery is that recovery, especially in elderly and vulnerable patients, takes a lot of time. Sometimes complications arise, such as leakage of the newly made intestinal connection. In that case, patients will have to undergo another operation and may have a stoma.
The LUMC therefore investigates with a European network whether, and if so when you can decide whether an operation is really necessary. Sometimes radiotherapy and chemotherapy are enough to get rid of the cancer. New techniques enable the MDL doctor to recognize and remove early forms of colorectal cancer more often than before.
You can participate in the live consultation hours by following the LUMC on Facebook or Instagram.
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