Anal Cancer Treatment - Stage 0 Anal Cancer
Stage 0 anal cancer is carcinoma in situ. Rarely diagnosed, it is a very early cancer that has not spread below the limiting membrane of the first layer of anal tissue.
Standard treatment options:
Background Incidence and mortality An estimated 39,400 new cases of oral cancer will be diagnosed in the United States in 2011, and an estimated 7,900 people will die of the disease.[1] This form of cancer accounts for about 3% of cancers in men [1] and 1.5% of cancers in women.[2] Oral cancer occurs more frequently in blacks than in whites.[3,4] The overall annual incidence in the United States is about 10.4 per 100,000 men and women; the median age at diagnosis of oral cavity or...
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Surgical resection is used for treatment of lesions of the perianal area not involving the anal sphincter (approach depends on the location of the lesion in the anal canal).
Current Clinical Trials
Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with stage 0 anal cancer. The list of clinical trials can be further narrowed by location, drug, intervention, and other criteria.
General information about clinical trials is also available from the NCI Web site.
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