Colon Cancer

Cody Adams chats with Dr.Kudrimoti from Markey Cancer Center about Colorectal cancer.

C1 3 cody: we've been talking about colorectal cancer and just bringing some of that awareness to people and how you can treat it and different options.

And here joining us today is dr.kudrimoti with the uk markey cancer center.

Doctor, thank you so much for taking time to join us.

We appreciate it.

Doctor: glad to be here, cody.

Cody: walk us through some of the things that you guys do at the markey center.

Doctor: the markey center provides a wide range of services for cancer patients, and especially because now we are talking about cancer, colon cancer specifically.

We have almost three tumor boards devoted to patients that can be discussed for their management.

We have exclusive colorectal surgeons.

We have the liver surgeons.

We have a dedicated medical oncology team and we have a dedicated radiation oncology team.

And other than that, we also have the ancillary teams, which includes interventional radiology.

We have a set of dedicated pathologists and radiologists who are trained to interpret the results of scans and tests,specifically addressing colorectal cancers.

Cody: i know there's a lot that goes into this.

So this question may seem like it oversimplifies it a little bit, but how does the radiation process work when you're talking colon cancer?

Doctor: most of the cases get discussed in multidisciplinary conferences, and at that point a treatment plan is made.

And depending on the stage of the c1 3 disease and the nature of the problem, we then incorporate radiation in various ways.

We could sometimes use radiation before surgery, especially when we are talking about rectal cancers, rectal cancers that are low in the pelvis, and the surgeons feel that, hey, one, we may not be able to take this tumor out completely and we might leave some tumor cells back, or two, hey, we might be able to shrink this tumor down and avoid a permanent colostomy for a patient.

So that is where give and take discussion between the various teams is made.

Cody: how has radiation treatment changed in recent years?

Doctor: the radiation technology has changed more and more, and adoption to an approach has been adopted.

Some changes have also been in the amount of radiation and the way you do it.

The timing of radiation has also been a matter of clinical trials.

There are trials that have tried to condense the radiation into five treatments.

The standard treatments, of course, are between five and six weeks.so depending on the merits of the case, depending on the stage of the disease,depending on the aim of the c1 3