Chemotherapy before surgery may help cut the risk of colon cancer returning – Medical News Today

Dr. Anton Bilchik, surgical oncologist and division chair of general surgery at Providence Saint John’s Health Center and chief of medicine and director of the Gastrointestinal Research Program at Saint John’s Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, California, said the study “demonstrates that chemotherapy is well tolerated before surgery and likely improves recurrence and survival in a subset of patients with more advanced disease.”

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