# Case report: Successful treatment of advanced colon cancer in an eighty-year-old man with long-term and multi-stage endoscopic minimally invasive therapy

## TL;DR

An 80-year-old man with advanced colon cancer was successfully treated with minimally invasive endoscopic therapy over several years.

## Contribution

This is the first reported case of using multi-stage endoscopic therapy for advanced colon cancer in an elderly patient.

## Key findings

- Minimally invasive endoscopic therapy was successfully used to treat advanced colon cancer in an 80-year-old patient.
- The treatment spanned multiple stages from 2018 to 2021 and included techniques like argon plasma coagulation.
- The patient's condition improved without traditional surgery.

## Abstract

No previous studies have reported on the use of minimally invasive endoscopic therapy for colon cancer in older patients.

An 80-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with haematochezia and diagnosed with advanced colon cancer in 2018. Traditional surgical care was rejected by his family. We successfully treated the patient with multiple minimally invasive endoscopic therapies, such as argon plasma coagulation, from 2018 to 2021.

Invasive endoscopic therapy is a feasible way to treat colon cancer in older patients.