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The battle against the cancer is sowed of ambushes. A team of research Swiss esteem that the patients who receive the radiotherapy to treat a cancer of the prostate would increase their risks to be reached of a colon cancer.

The researchers scrutinized the medical files of the men that received a diagnosis of cancer of the prostate between 1980 and 1998 in the region of Geneva. Among the 1 134 chosen patients, 264 had received the radiotherapy. However, eight among them have been reached of a colon cancer in the five to nine years that followed the treatment. a sufficient time to allow a tumor led by the radiotherapy to form itself/themselves.

According to the calculations of the team of researchers, the colon cancer would have formed itself more often four times among these patients that at the Genevan others of the same age. To underline:  the men who had received a diagnosis of cancer of the prostate, but that had not followed a radiotherapy didn’t increase their risks.

The authors of the survey were also interested in the risks for these patients to be reached of a cancer of the rectum. No tie has been demonstrated. A surprising report, since the rectum is one of the regions radiated when one tackles the prostate.

Some previous studies had shown a tie besides between the treatments of radiotherapy for the cancer of the prostate and the cancer of the rectum. The small size of the sample in the survey of Geneva could be in reason.

A good news all the same:  some important progress have been done as regards to the radiotherapy during the last years. The rays are now targeted better and risk less to damage cloths adjacent to the tumor.

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