Early detection of colon and anal tumors
Early detection of colon and anal tumors increases the chances of complete recovery…Surgical staplers to preserve the anal constrictor muscles so that the patient can excrete normally.
In the latest international statistics on tumors, it was found that colon and anal tumors are the second most common tumor among both sexes and the most common in the digestive system. Wrong dietary habits and environmental pollution are considered one of the main causes of infection with these tumors, at a time when the incidence of tumors is increasing steadily, especially over the past two decades, accompanying technological and industrial progress. And agricultural.
The European Union has established a special project for the Mediterranean countries (Paradigma) to study the rates of colon and anal cancer, their detection, surgical intervention, and post-surgical treatment (chemoradiation therapy). The project concluded that colon and anal tumors are on the rise, that the ages of infection are in contradiction, and that complete recovery after infection depends on early detection of colon and anal cancer.
Tumors of the digestive system spread as a result of eating fast food that contains high levels of oils and flavorings added to it, in addition to green food and fruits resulting from cultivation in greenhouses in which chemicals and hormones are used. It is recommended to use traditional (organic) crops that do not depend on the use of chemicals and hormones in their cultivation. The latest scientific studies have advised that eating home meals of vegetables, dairy products, and fruits is the best way to avoid colon and anal tumors.
The early detection of colon and anal tumors depends largely on the patient’s feeling of any change in the process of excretion or the appearance of unprecedented blood bleeding. In this case, an initial stool analysis must be performed, then followed by a colonoscopy or colon x-ray to determine the causes of the bleeding, given that anal bleeding is often treated as hemorrhoids or anal fissures, which leads to a delay in early detection of the tumor, and the primary treatment in this case is This condition involves partial colon resection as soon as possible.
Early detection of tumors entails dealing with the tumor at the beginning of its formation, as its size is small within the area of its occurrence. Over time, the size of the tumor doubles as the fetus grows in the womb, and the blood vessels feeding it increase. Cancer cells begin to separate from the mother tumor and then spread through the vessels. Blood circulation to all parts of the body, settling either in the liver, lungs, or bones. The cancerous tumor transforms from a local tumor into a general tumor through the blood circulation and is difficult to control.
Regarding what is new in surgeries to remove anal and colon tumors, what is new in these surgeries is the ability to completely remove the tumor along with the lymph nodes and connect the colon and not make an exit hole in the abdominal wall (colostomy). The usual practice in such surgeries is to divert the abdomen to the abdominal wall if the tumor is located in the rectum at a distance of 9-12 centimeters from the anus. The scientist has concluded that the surgeon is able to remove the anal tumor, no matter how close it is to the anus, and to preserve the anal constrictor muscles in order to maintain the process of controlling defecation and to connect the colon to the anal canal, so that the patient can defecate in the natural way.
A large segment of patients suffer from abdominal exit holes (colostomy). Until there are new solutions to this problem, as colostomy openings (excretory opening from the abdomen), which is the diversion of waste to the abdominal wall, is one of the methods that has been rarely used in the last decade, and this method was commonly used and is still in use in some medical centers for cases of removal of anal cancerous tumors and cases of anal fistula. The high one. As for cases of low anal tumors, it was difficult to connect the colon to the anal canal after removing the tumor, but now these connections have become simple using surgical staplers, through which the intestine can be connected to the anal canal while preserving the anal constrictor muscles, so the patient can excrete normally and control the excretion process. . As for the high anal fistula, it has only been scientifically proven that diverting the excretory tract to the abdomen does not close the fistula automatically, but knowing the direction of the fistula and the anatomical character of the muscles through modern diagnostic methods such as magnetic resonance imaging and three-dimensional anal ultrasound, the map and path of the anal fistula can be determined. Removing it completely leads to recovery in these cases without diverting the stool to the abdomen.
Regarding cases of lack of control over bowel movements, which forces the patient to use diapers, which causes him to suffer from skin infections, he explained that lack of bowel control is still a chronic problem for doctors, but the reasons are many and vary between lack of control resulting from cutting the anal muscles (as a result of a previous injury) or muscle paralysis. Anorexia (resulting from a disease in the lower spine) or chronic megacolon resulting from partial paralysis of the colon, which leads to increased storage within the colon, which results in chronic constipation and then ends with lack of control over excretion. It affects children from the age of 3 to 18 years.
The treatment methods for these cases vary based on diagnosing the cause and knowing whether the injury to the anal muscles is related to the muscle itself or to the nerve supplying the muscle to the colon. Based on the diagnosis, the method of treatment and muscular repair is determined for cases of muscle rupture, which are usually the result of hemorrhoid surgery, a previous anal fissure, or After a natural birth, especially in homes and primitive centers, the baby’s head will be large, causing lacerations of the vaginal opening and anal muscles unless the obstetrician and gynecologist deals with it surgically by surgically widening the vaginal opening and then closing it again.
There are many patients who suffer from pain in the anus and the perineum area that is not related to the process of excretion, and there are new methods of treatment in this field. Anal pain has long bothered doctors and patients because the anal area is one of the most sensitive areas in the human body, and therefore the pain there when it occurs is severe and has an impact. On the patient as pain
