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What Does Deep Surgical Margins Of The Excised Tissue During Colonoscopy Indicate?
Question: I was just diagnosed with colon cancer. What does deep margin: involved by adenocarcinoma mean I can't find it anywhere I am so scared. The polyp was low grade well differentiated
Brief Answer:
This is the early stage colon cancer.
Detailed Answer:
Hello!
Thank you for the query.
This simply means that the polyp which has been removed during the colonoscopy contained cancer cells. The area where the polyp is cut of the intestine is a deep margin. At your case, the cancer has not been removed completely as the cancer cells are present in this margin area. So in simple words, the place in the large intestine where the polyp was, still contains some cancer cells.
We do not know how deep the cancer has penetrated the intestine, but as the removed polyp did not look like a cancer (I assume that, otherwise it would not be removed), it allows to think that this is a very early stage of colon cancer. So this is a very good information. The next step is surgery. The part of large intestine with lymph nodes will be removed and tested by a pathologist.
As a conclusion, you seem to be lucky as the colon cancer has been diagnosed in a very early stage. This gives you great chance to be cured completely.
Hope this will help. Feel free to ask further questions.
Regards.
This is the early stage colon cancer.
Detailed Answer:
Hello!
Thank you for the query.
This simply means that the polyp which has been removed during the colonoscopy contained cancer cells. The area where the polyp is cut of the intestine is a deep margin. At your case, the cancer has not been removed completely as the cancer cells are present in this margin area. So in simple words, the place in the large intestine where the polyp was, still contains some cancer cells.
We do not know how deep the cancer has penetrated the intestine, but as the removed polyp did not look like a cancer (I assume that, otherwise it would not be removed), it allows to think that this is a very early stage of colon cancer. So this is a very good information. The next step is surgery. The part of large intestine with lymph nodes will be removed and tested by a pathologist.
As a conclusion, you seem to be lucky as the colon cancer has been diagnosed in a very early stage. This gives you great chance to be cured completely.
Hope this will help. Feel free to ask further questions.
Regards.
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
Thank you so much for the answer!!
Brief Answer:
You are welcome.
Detailed Answer:
You are welcome. I hope you will get well soon.
You are welcome.
Detailed Answer:
You are welcome. I hope you will get well soon.
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
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