Pre & Post Postoperative Management for Stage 1 Colon Cancer

Running Head: NURSING 0
PRE & POST
POSTOPERATIVE
MANAGEMENT.
Stage 1 Colon Cancer
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NURSING 1
Introduction
In this essay the pre operational and post postoperative managements which are required
for a patient who is undergoing resection and anastomosis for stage 1 colon cancer. It will further
include the specific preparations needed for the postop management like care in the first 24 hours
of the post-operative period and other complications which may be associated with the surgery.
All the discussion to be done in this assignment will be supported by the extensive evidences
from the journals reviewed by the peer groups and the other relevant resources.
Pre and post operational strategies
Colon cancer is that disease in which malignant cells or the cancer cells are basically
found in the tissues of the colon and it’s the history of the health which basically responsible for
the development of this type of cancer. Its symptoms can be recovery of blood in stool or change
in a bowel habits. Risk factor of this disease include having the history of colon cancer or the
rectal cancer of its own as person or from the family, having been inherited with some germs
which can increase the risk of FAP i.e. familiar adenomatous polyposis., consuming three or
more alcoholic drinks every day, smoking cigarettes, being obese and black. In this cancer there
are four stages, which starts from 0 and extends till IV (Chun, 2019).
For staging process the following procedures may be used like CT scan, MRI, PET scan
i.e. positron emission tomography scan, x-ray of the chest, surgery, lymph node biopsy, complete
blood count i.e. CBC and CEA i.e. carcioembryonic antigen assay. Cancer gets blowout in the
entire body through tissue, blood system and the lymph. In stage 1 of the colon cancer, the
cancer is formed in the innermost layer i.e. mucosa on the walls of the colon and with the help of
the tissue get spread in the sub mucosa or the muscle layer of the colon wall (clinic, 2019).

NURSING 2
Source: (Chun, 2019)
Surgery can be considered as the best type and standardized treatment or the most
common way used by the doctors for this type of cancer. Surgery means removal of the cancer
by operating process. Here the cancer can be removed by two types of surgeries. First one out of
them is the local excision and second one is the resection. Local excision is used to cure the
cancer found in the early stage, here the doctor remove it from the abdominal walls without
cutting it, rather by using the tube with the tools used for cutting from the rectum into the colon
for cutting the cancer out. Resection is often done with anastomosis of colon and is performed if
the cancer is larger. Here the doctor will conduct a colectomy for removing the cancer and few
healthy tissues around it. Doctor will also remove the nodes of lymph found near the colon and
then examine them under the microscope for seeing whether is still remaining (texasoncology,
2019).
Pre operational requirements suggests the mental preparedness of the patients before the
operation or the surgery. It is very important to ensure that suitable and aware of all the
necessary conditions before being taken in the operation theater for surgery. There are two
methods in which the preparation of this colon surgery was compared out of which the first one