Lumbosacral radiculoplexopathy in colon cancer treatment is a very rare but serious complication after radiation. We report here a 66-year-old man with slowly progressive lower limb weakness which arose 30 years after local radiation treatment for colon cancer. Electrophysiological studies revealed signs of denervation confined to the lower limbs. Other causes were excluded by clinical presentation, serological, cerebrospinal fluid and imaging studies. This case shows that delayed radiation-induced lumbosacral radiculoplexopathy can occur 30 years after the initial treatment.
Colonic Neoplasms

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Colon* ; Colonic Neoplasms*

The authors carried out of the study on ARN message extrait from the peripheric blood of the 20 patients diagnosed to have colon cancer and 13 control healthy persons by RT - PCR quantitative with marker CK 20. The obtained results are as follows: The technique have been fulfilled; The CK 20 in the patients and the healthy person is not significant different
Colonic Neoplasms ; Blood ; RNA

Colon cancer is a common and deadly disease. Surgical resection is the primary treatment modality for colon cancer. For patients who have undergone potentially curative resection, disease recurrence is thought to derive from clinically occult micrometastases that are present at the time of surgery. The goal of postoperative or adjuvant therapy is to eradicate these micrometastases, thereby decreasing the likelihood of relapse, and increasing the cure rate. Although, adjuvant therapy decreased the rate of recurrence and death, it was not used largely for old patients. The recent regimes include systemic adjuvant therapy and almost adjuvant therapy lasted for 6 months or more, the common side-effects often occur in gastrointestinal tract and hematopoietic system. Radiotherapy was considered depending on each case. Local adjuvant treatment was concerned when liver metastasis was removed
Colonic Neoplasms ; Therapeutics

This prospective study was conducted with 159 patients of colon cancer who underwent an endoscopy and an operation at the Hospital K in Hanoi. Most frequent symptoms were abdominal pain -81.8%, change of rectal habit- 74.2%, large bowel obstruction-12.6%. The symptoms were lasting for 10.7 months. Rigid endoscopy was performed on 11.3% of patients; and flexible on 88.7%. A majority of tumors -55.99%, were detected in sigmoid colon, 25.9% were necrotic tumors. Synchronous polyps were found in combining with 23.3% of tumors. Endoscopic accuracy reached to 96.9%. In conclusion, endoscopy is the method of choice for detecting the colon cancer
Colonic Neoplasms ; Endosonography ; diagnosis

Subject: 232 patients with colon cancer. The disease is more likely to occur after 40 years old. Male to female ratio is similar. Diagnosis and treatment is made in advanced stage of disease. More than 70% of patients have disease progress duration from 4 to 12 months. About 40% patients manifested intestinal occlusion or sub occlusion at presentation. According to DUKES classification: A: 0%; B : 52.2%; C: 33.6% and D 14.2%. Tumor at right colon accounted for 50.4% and at left colon accounted for 35%. The most common place is sigmoid colon (26.3%). Histopathological findings showed that adenocarcinomas is 95.2%. The death rate is 4.7%. 3.4% of patients have dehiscence of the anastomosis. Averall 5 year survival is 38.1% after operation
Colonic Neoplasms ; therapeutics

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Colon* ; Colonic Neoplasms*

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Colon* ; Colonic Neoplasms*

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Colon* ; Colonic Neoplasms*

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Colonic Neoplasms* ; Rectum*