Cancer of the colon is highly treatable when handled at early stage. The type of treatment your doctor suggests will rely mostly on the level of your melanoma. The Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center offers a full variety of therapies to fit your individual needs, including:
Chemotherapy
Chemo uses drugs to remove melanoma cells. Chemo can be used to remove melanoma cells after surgery treatment, to control tumor growth or to decrease symptoms of digestive tract melanoma. Your doctor may recommend chemo treatment if your melanoma has distribute beyond the wall of colon or if your melanoma has distribute to the lymph nodes.
Clinical Trials
Nowadays, patients clinically diagnosed as melanoma not only have availability the latest therapies and innovative technology; they have the opportunity to participate in clinical trials that study the effects of certain treatments for their particular cancer.
Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center Clinical Trials, a cooperation between Scottsdale Healthcare Research Institute and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), is one of the country's leading features for new drug development. We offer more Level I healthcare research than any other melanoma center in Arizona, allowing patients access to new therapies for the first time in the world.
daVinci Robotic Surgery
In 2003, Scottsdale Healthcare was the first hospital in Arizona to purchase the daVinci robot-assisted surgical system. This system is used for a less-invasive approach to functions, which allows for smaller incisions, less scarring damage and faster restoration. For digestive tract surgery treatment patients, this typically means three or four incisions that are each less than one-third of an inches long. Another 1- to 1.5-inch cut is made to remove the unhealthy digestive tract tissue. Compared to 5-inch cut usually needed during traditional open digestive tract surgery treatment, it’s clear to understand why da Vinci surgery is called non-invasive.
It also has other advantages for patients. Robotic colorectal surgery treatment patients usually are put in the hospital only two or three days, in comparison to five or six for open-surgery patients. The assistance of the automated system allows for much more accurate healthcare activities, so the surgeon can remove melanoma with less injury to the nearby anxiety and blood veins.
Dr. Andrew Kassir performed the first automatic digestive tract surgery treatment in Arizona during 2009 at Scottsdale Healthcare and now, doctors from across the country travel to watch and learn during his robotic techniques. Robotic surgery treatment for the colon is a recent development.
Radiation Therapy
Radiotherapy uses rays to eliminate any melanoma cells that might remain after surgery treatment, to shrink large cancers before an operation so that they can be removed more easily, or to decrease symptoms of digestive tract melanoma and rectal melanoma. Radiotherapy is hardly ever used in early-stage digestive tract melanoma, but is a routine part of dealing with rectal melanoma, especially if melanoma has occupied through the surfaces of the rectum or to close by lymph nodes. Radiotherapy, usually along with rays treatment, may be used after surgery treatment to decrease the risk that melanoma may happen again in the area of the rectum where it began.
Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery (TEM)
The Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center is extremely pleased to be one of less than 100 centers in the United States to offer transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM), a non-invasive healthcare technique that allows the removal of a melanoma mass or polyp in the rectum that might otherwise require a major stomach surgery treatment.
Chemotherapy
Chemo uses drugs to remove melanoma cells. Chemo can be used to remove melanoma cells after surgery treatment, to control tumor growth or to decrease symptoms of digestive tract melanoma. Your doctor may recommend chemo treatment if your melanoma has distribute beyond the wall of colon or if your melanoma has distribute to the lymph nodes.
Clinical Trials
Nowadays, patients clinically diagnosed as melanoma not only have availability the latest therapies and innovative technology; they have the opportunity to participate in clinical trials that study the effects of certain treatments for their particular cancer.
Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center Clinical Trials, a cooperation between Scottsdale Healthcare Research Institute and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), is one of the country's leading features for new drug development. We offer more Level I healthcare research than any other melanoma center in Arizona, allowing patients access to new therapies for the first time in the world. daVinci Robotic Surgery
In 2003, Scottsdale Healthcare was the first hospital in Arizona to purchase the daVinci robot-assisted surgical system. This system is used for a less-invasive approach to functions, which allows for smaller incisions, less scarring damage and faster restoration. For digestive tract surgery treatment patients, this typically means three or four incisions that are each less than one-third of an inches long. Another 1- to 1.5-inch cut is made to remove the unhealthy digestive tract tissue. Compared to 5-inch cut usually needed during traditional open digestive tract surgery treatment, it’s clear to understand why da Vinci surgery is called non-invasive.
It also has other advantages for patients. Robotic colorectal surgery treatment patients usually are put in the hospital only two or three days, in comparison to five or six for open-surgery patients. The assistance of the automated system allows for much more accurate healthcare activities, so the surgeon can remove melanoma with less injury to the nearby anxiety and blood veins.
Dr. Andrew Kassir performed the first automatic digestive tract surgery treatment in Arizona during 2009 at Scottsdale Healthcare and now, doctors from across the country travel to watch and learn during his robotic techniques. Robotic surgery treatment for the colon is a recent development.
Radiation Therapy
Radiotherapy uses rays to eliminate any melanoma cells that might remain after surgery treatment, to shrink large cancers before an operation so that they can be removed more easily, or to decrease symptoms of digestive tract melanoma and rectal melanoma. Radiotherapy is hardly ever used in early-stage digestive tract melanoma, but is a routine part of dealing with rectal melanoma, especially if melanoma has occupied through the surfaces of the rectum or to close by lymph nodes. Radiotherapy, usually along with rays treatment, may be used after surgery treatment to decrease the risk that melanoma may happen again in the area of the rectum where it began.
Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery (TEM)
The Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center is extremely pleased to be one of less than 100 centers in the United States to offer transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM), a non-invasive healthcare technique that allows the removal of a melanoma mass or polyp in the rectum that might otherwise require a major stomach surgery treatment.
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