Description: Bowel Cancer Australia is the leading community-funded charity dedicated to prevention, early diagnosis, research, quality treatment and care for everyone affected by bowel cancer (also known as colorectal cancer).
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There are different types of treatment for patients with bowel cancer, depending on where the cancer is located in the body (i.e. the colon or rectum). While surgery is the most common treatment for removing the cancer from your bowel, some people may also require chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy to reduce the size of the tumour and prevent progression of the disease.
If surgery is not an option, then chemotherapy and radiotherapy may be offered to halt progression of the disease and to help control the symptoms.
Treatment for bowel cancer is decided by: