“What is the success rate of colon cancer surgery?”
I will have colon cancer surgery. What is the success rate of colon cancer surgery?
4 Answers
The "success rate" is defined by the surgeons ability to remove all the tumor, and adequate number of lymph nodes to stage you. This can vary depending on the size, location, and invasiveness of the tumor. Tumors that have not spread to lymph nodes, or outside the colon, and are completely removed, have a ~95% cure rate. On the other spectrum, if the tumor has invaded the liver, lungs, or any other organs outside the colon, the survival rate is ~10%.
Only your surgeon can give the sissies rate of any particular surgery, but I think you mean the cure rate from the cancer after doing surgery; and the answer to that depends on the stage of the colon cancer. If you have stage I then surgery can cure 90%, stage II then 70-80% and if stage III then 50-70%. For stage III and high risk stage II we give chemo for 3-6 month after surgery to improve the cure rate by another 15-20%
Procedure should be performed at high volume hospital to minimize risks of Surgery.
It really depends on the stage, which is only fully known after the surgery. Once the full stage is known then you will learn if chemotherapy will be needed.
