Patient's question:
A colleague's aunt has been diagnosed with early-stage pelvic cancer. How should one take care after pelvic cancer surgery?Doctor's answer:
The pelvic cavity involves multiple organs, and a general term like "pelvic cancer" is incorrect. If the cancer has metastasized to the pelvis, regardless of the type of cancer, the first choice is not surgical resection but rather neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Preoperative chemotherapy can effectively reduce cancer lesions and microscopic cancer cells, facilitating the surgery and prolonging the disease-free survival period postoperatively. Two to four cycles of chemotherapy are typically sufficient for surgical resection. Subsequently, consolidation chemotherapy should be continued to further extend the survival period of patients after treatment.