Experts at the NHS Clatterbridge Cancer Centre on the Wirral discovered that people with early-stage rectal cancer can avoid the need for a stoma and may be cured if they have a type of specialist internal radiotherapy.
People with rectal cancer could be spared the need for life-changing surgery thanks to a rapid treatment that preserves healthy tissue, a clinical trial has found.
Sharon Price, 51, who works in the NHS caring for lung cancer patients, was 45 and recently married when she was given the devastating news that she had rectal cancer.
Prof Myint said the treatment meant patients could avoid a colostomy – an operation to bring part of the bowel through an opening in the stomach to form a stoma, which collects the body’s waste in a bag.
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the world’s leading centres for this type of treatment for rectal cancer.
