Posted on 01/20/2023 4:45:33 PM PST by ConservativeMind
Giving colon cancer patients chemotherapy before surgery cuts their risk of the disease coming back, according to the results of a Cancer Research UK clinical trial.
The FOxTROT trial showed that giving colon cancer patients chemotherapy before rather than after surgery reduced by 28% the chance of cancer returning within 2 years.
Colon cancer patients were divided into two groups in the study. The first group received 6 weeks of chemotherapy, followed by surgery, then 18 weeks of chemotherapy. The second group had standard treatment for colon cancer, which was surgery first followed by 24 weeks of chemotherapy.
Through follow-up assessments, the scientists found that patients who had had chemotherapy before surgery were significantly less likely to see their cancer come back, compared with those who received all their chemotherapy after surgery.
The scientists believe that giving chemotherapy to bowel cancer patients before surgery could be easily adopted by the NHS and other health systems across the world.
Professor of Gastrointestinal Cancer Research at the University of Leeds, Matthew Seymour, stated, "Timing is everything when it comes to treating colon cancer. The simple act of bringing forward chemotherapy, giving it before instead of after surgery, delivers some remarkable results. Delivering chemotherapy before surgery could prevent recurrences of cancer without the need for expensive new drugs or technologies. It was especially encouraging to find that patients who had chemotherapy before their surgery suffered fewer surgical complications. Scaling up this treatment worldwide, including in low and middle income countries, could transform cancer care and save many thousands of lives."
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This protocol has been around for at least 20 years.
Several medical research papers of using Ivermectin to treat colon cancers.
Ivermectin to treat cancer? Do you recall any of the fundamental aspects?
Regarding chemo before, the surgery mainly involves removal of the dead tissue — whereas afterwards, risk of live-cell spread is obviously greater.
One can also insert other cancers to see if any papers are published (several are).
okay
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