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The Stomach and Colon Cancer Center is a center that diagnoses and treats tumors that occur in the gastrointestinal tract (stomach cancer, colon cancer). Specialists in gastroenterology, oncology, surgery, radiation oncology, and radiology work together as a team to provide the best treatment for these patients. It was established to provide accurate and appropriate treatment.

Information on related diseases

1. Stomach cancer The stomach is a digestive organ that stores food when we eat it and digests it with gastric juice. The stomach wall is composed of the mucosa layer, submucosa layer, muscularis propria layer, subserosal layer, and serosal layer. Most gastric cancers are adenocarcinomas, which occur in the mucosal layer of the stomach wall and are divided into early gastric cancer and advanced gastric cancer. Early gastric cancer refers to gastric cancer in which the cancer is limited to the mucosa and submucosa, while advanced gastric cancer refers to a condition in which the cancer has spread not only to the stomach wall but also to lymph nodes or other organs around the stomach. 2. Colon Cancer The large intestine is divided into two parts, the colon and the rectum, and functions to form, store, and excrete feces after digesting and absorbing food. Colon cancer is a malignant tumor that occurs in the colon and rectum. Adenomatous polyps, which are benign tumors, can develop into adenocarcinoma due to factors such as genetic mutations.

Diagnosis and Treatment

Stomach cancer and colon cancer are diagnosed through biopsy using gastroscopy and colonoscopy, and the progress of the cancer is determined through abdominal CT and PET-CT.

1. Treatment of stomach cancer When stomach cancer is diagnosed, specialists from various departments work together to provide the most appropriate treatment for each patient, including surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy.

◎ Surgical treatment: laparotomy, endoscopic mucosal resection, laparoscopic gastrectomy, etc.

◎ Anti-cancer drug treatment: There is adjuvant anti-cancer drug treatment before and after surgery and conventional anti-cancer drug treatment.

2. Treatment of colon cancer

◎ Surgical treatment: The surgical method is determined depending on the location of colon cancer. In addition to the existing laparotomy, recently surgery is mainly performed laparoscopically.

◎ Radiation therapy: It is performed as an adjuvant treatment to surgery for rectal cancer and is also performed before surgery to increase the probability of curative surgery or to preserve the anal sphincter.

◎ Anti-cancer drug treatment: Used as adjuvant treatment before and after surgery and palliative treatment.