The picture above is a CT scan view of a pelvis in a patient with locally advanced rectal cancer. The red circle indicates the lateral extent of the rectal tumour. It appears that almost the whole lumen has been obliterated by the tumour.The remaining compressed lumen is reflected by only three black dots in the centre of the mass.
The patient was diagnosed one year earlier in another hospital when he presented with just painless bleeding in the stools.
After colonoscopy and histological confirmation of the diagnosis, the patient refused the standard surgical operation offered, but instead went for an "Alternative Therapy" in Gerik, Perak.
He came to my clinic asking for a CT scan to check on his disease.
From the CT scan, he soon will suffer Intestinal Obstruction that will require an emergency surgery.
I am yet to find a cancer patient successfully treated by an "Altetnative Therapy".
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