More than 60,000 new cases of colon cancer are diagnosed in Germany every year. This makes colorectal cancer the second most common tumor disease in women and the third most common tumor disease in men nationwide.
Chance of early detection
Up to 90 percent of all colorectal cancers develop from benign tissue growths (intestinal polyps/adenomas), which are present in the intestine in about seven percent of the population. The intestinal polyps rarely cause symptoms, but can degenerate with increasing size (malignant transformation). This process takes up to ten years and is known as adenoma-carcinoma sequence.
Jointly for your cure
Colon cancer surgery is a central component in the treatment of colon cancer. As part of the certified Colon Cancer Center, our clinic offers you a particularly high level of experience in oncological surgery. We use the most modern and safest procedures. In addition to the necessary radicality for complete tumour removal, minimally invasive techniques for the benefit of our patients with early recovery are in the foreground.
The almost always required surgery is only one link in the treatment chain. In the weekly interdisciplinary tumour conference, we discuss further neoadjuvant (usually drug therapy prior to surgery), adjuvant (additional supportive treatment after surgical removal of the tumour) or radiotherapeutic measures for optimal colon cancer treatment together with specialists from gastroenterology, radiology, oncology and radiotherapy, and jointly determine the treatment plan.
Process
After the referral by your established gastroenterologist or GP, we are available to you in our oncological consultation hours. There, we will review and discuss all findings in detail and recommend an individual, stage-specific therapy concept. If necessary, further examinations are carried out. As soon as you have decided on the therapy, the presentation will take place in our tumor conference.
We will be happy to answer all your questions!