LAPAROSCOPIC COLON CANCER
Your small intestine is part of your digestive system. It is a long tube that connects your stomach to your large intestine. Intestinal cancer is rare, but eating a high-fat diet or having Crohn’s disease, celiac disease, or a history of colonic polyps can increase your risk.
Abdominal pain or lumps, weight loss for no reason or blood in the stool can be symptoms. Imaging tests that create pictures of the small intestine and the area around it can help diagnose intestinal cancer and show whether it has spread.
Surgery is the most common treatment. Additional options include chemotherapy, radiation or a combination.
Possible signs of small intestine cancer include abdominal pain and unexplained weight loss.
These and other symptoms may be caused by small intestine cancer or by other conditions. A doctor should be consulted if any of the following problems occur:
Pain or cramps in the middle of the abdomen.
Weight loss with no known reason.
A lump in the abdomen
Blood in the stool.
Left Hemicolectomy
This operation can be performed in one of two ways either by laparoscopic method (keyhole surgery) or by laparotomy (open procedure). The operation involves removing the left side of the large bowel (colon) and joining the two ends together (anastomosis). The light shading area on the diagram marked with an arrow below, gives an indication of which part of the bowel is to be removed. The Benefits of Surgery
The Benefits of Surgery
The main benefits are to remove that part of the large bowel affected by disease and to relieve any symptoms you may be experiencing.
Right Hemicolectomy
This operation involves removing the right side of the large intestine with a small amount of the small bowel. The exact extent of the resection is dependent upon the reason that the operation is being done and it is essential that the diseased portion of the bowel together with a healthy margin of normal tissue is removed. Apart from in very exceptional circumstances the cut end of the small bowel will be joined to the large bowel and there will be no requirement for a side passage.
Lower Anterior Resection (LAR)
Anterior resection of the rectum surgery (also known as low anterior resection surgery or LAR) is a procedure used to treat the rectum, typically after the patient has suffered from rectal cancer or some similar ailment. LAR is especially popular when cancer has affected the upper two-thirds of the rectum. Some stage I and most stage II or II rectal cancers occur close to where the rectum connects with the colon in the upper two thirds of the rectum. During low anterior resection surgery, surgeons attempt to remove the cancerous tumor without affecting the anus. The colon is attached to the anus allowing waste to leave the body in the normal manner.
Advantages of Laparoscopic Colon Cancer Surgery
Shorter hospital stay
Quicker ability to resume eating solid foods
Reduced requirement for narcotic pain medicine
Smaller post-surgical scars that are placed in less-visible areas
Faster return to normal activities
Many Operations of Right & left Hemicolectomy and LAR performed by Vardaan Hospital. 5 years follow ups of these patients show about 68% survivals.