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Última revisão: 22 Mar 2025
Última atualização: 24 Jan 2025

Resumo

Definição

História e exame físico

Principais fatores diagnósticos

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • idade mais avançada
  • sangramento retal
  • alteração no hábito intestinal
  • massa retal
  • história familiar positiva
  • massa abdominal

Outros fatores diagnósticos

  • dor abdominal
  • anemia
  • sexo masculino
  • perda de peso e anorexia
  • distensão abdominal
  • linfonodos palpáveis

Fatores de risco

  • idade mais avançada
  • história familiar
  • mutação no gene da polipose adenomatosa do cólon (APC)
  • Síndrome de Lynch (câncer colorretal hereditário sem polipose)
  • Polipose associada ao MYH/MUTYH
  • síndromes da polipose hamartomatosa
  • doença inflamatória intestinal
  • obesidade
  • acromegalia
  • atividade física limitada
  • ausência de fibras alimentares
  • tabagismo
  • consumo moderado ou excessivo de bebidas alcoólicas
  • níveis baixos de vitamina D
  • consumo de carne vermelha e processada

Investigações diagnósticas

Primeiras investigações a serem solicitadas

  • hemograma completo
  • bioquímica hepática
  • função renal
  • teste imunoquímico fecal quantitativo
  • colonoscopia
  • colonografia por TC
  • TC do tórax, abdome e pelve
  • teste genético

Investigações a serem consideradas

  • RNM de pelve: protocolo para câncer retal
  • ultrassonografia endoscópica transrretal
  • biópsia
  • antígeno carcinoembriogênico
  • tomografia por emissão de pósitrons (PET)

Novos exames

  • técnicas avançadas de imagem óptica
  • testes baseados no sangue
  • DNA do tumor circulante

Algoritmo de tratamento

Colaboradores

Autores

Professor of Surgery

Georgetown University School of Medicine

Georgetown

DC

Regional Chief of Surgery

MedStar Health

Baltimore

MD

Declarações

DES declares that he has no competing interests.

Assistant Professor

Department of Radiation Oncology

University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Medical Center KCC Radiation Oncology

Bel Air

MD

Declarações

KANC declares that she has no competing interests.

Dr David E. Stein and Dr Kamila A. Nowak-Choi would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Pallavi P. Kumar, Dr David M. Lisle, Dr Juan L. Poggio, Dr Jascha Rubin, Dr Najjia Mahmoud, Dr Emily Carter Paulson, Dr Gary Atkin, Dr Anne Ballinger, Dr Mark O'Hara, Dr Mark Harrison, and Dr Robert Glynne-Jones, previous contributors to this topic.

Declarações

PPK, DML, JLP, JR, NM, ECP, MOH, GA, and AB declare that they have no competing interests. MH is the chair of the Mount Vernon Upper GI Tumour Site Specific Group and a member of the National Cancer Research Institute anal, rectal, and advanced colorectal groups. He has also received honoraria for speaking and has been supported to attend international meetings on gastrointestinal cancer from Roche. He has also received research funding from Pfizer for a trial in rectal cancer. RGJ is the chief medical adviser to the charity Bowel Cancer UK. He has received honoraria for lectures from Roche, Sanofi, and Pfizer. He has received funding for the EXTRA study, involving capecitabine and radiotherapy in anal cancer, published in the International Journal of Radiation Biology Physics. RGJ has also received funding and free cetuximab for an ongoing phase 1/2 study integrating cetuximab into chemoradiation in rectal cancer, and has an agreement from Roche to supply bevacizumab for 3 months to 60 patients in one randomised phase 2 study as neoadjuvant chemotherapy in rectal cancer (BACCHUS). He has also been supported by Roche to attend international meetings in gastrointestinal cancer.

Revisores

Consultant Colorectal Surgeon

St Mark's Hospital and Academic Institute

Northwick Park

Middlesex

UK

Declarações

SC declares that she has no competing interests.

Chief of Staff

Chairman

Department of Colorectal Surgery

Cleveland Clinic

Weston

FL

Declarações

SW declares that he has no competing interests.

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