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Colorectal cancer, also called colon cancer or large bowel cancer, includes cancerous growths in the colon, rectum and appendix. It is the third most common form of cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the Western world. Colorectal cancer causes 655,000 deaths worldwide per year. Many colorectal cancers are thought to arise from adenomatous polyps in the colon. These mushroom-like growths are usually benign, but some may develop into cancer over time. The majority of the time, the diagnosis of localized colon cancer is through colonoscopy. Therapy is usually through surgery, which in many cases is followed by chemotherapy.
Colon cancer often causes no symptoms until it has reached a relatively advanced stage. Thus, many organizations recommend periodic screening for the disease with fecal occult blood testing and colonoscopy. When symptoms do occur, they depend on the site of the lesion. Generally speaking, the nearer the lesion is to the anus, the more bowel symptoms there will be, such as:
- Change in bowel habits
- Change in frequency (constipation and/or diarrhea),
- Change in the quality of stools
- Change in consistency of stools
- Bloody stools or rectal bleeding
- Stools with mucus
- Tarry stools (melena) (more likely related to upper
gastrointestinal eg stomach or duodenal disease)
- Feeling of incomplete defecation (tenesmus) (usually
associated with rectal cancer)
- Reduction in diameter of feces
- Bowel obstruction (rare)
Constitutional symptoms:
Especially in the cases of cancer in the ascending colon, sometimes only the less specific constitutional symptoms will be found:
- Anemia, with symptoms such as dizziness, malaise and
palpitations. Clinically there will be pallor and a complete
blood picture will confirm the low hemoglobin level.
- Anorexia
- Asthenia, weakness
- Unexplained weight loss.
Metastatic symptoms:
There may also be symptoms attributed to distant metastasis:
- Shortness of breath as in lung metastasis
- Epigastric or right upper quadrant pain, as in liver
metastasis. Rarely there can be jaundice if the outflow of
pile is blocked. Clinically there might be liver enlargement.
Chemotherapy treatments for colon cancer can cause side effects that include suppressed immune system, hair loss, nausea, mouth sores, sores in ...
My loved one has stage-4 colon cancer. They removed 18" of his colon, but it has spread to the liver and throughout his abdomen. Please help me to know what to expect. He starts chemo tomorrow. Any knowledge would be most appreciated.
that depends on the chemo regiment that he's put on, but I'll agree with fatigue and nausea being the most common side effects.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colon_cance r#Risk_factors
I'm going through treatment now. My doctors have mentioned smoking, diet and alcohol all as risk factors in my case, though none of those are really enough to explain why it probably started to grow back when I was in university (as if most university men don't eat garbage and drink too much!). Heredity is important too.
Age is probably the biggest factor. People my age just aren't even supposed to get it. People in their 60s and 70s get it much more often.
I think like with most cancers, at the end of the day, anyone with a little bad luck could potentially get it (like me). Nobody is 100% safe from it.
[edit] Oh, as for effects, if you mean symptoms, there aren't always any noticeable symptoms. All I had was frequent gas pain, so for three years I was misdiagnosed as having IBS. Colon cancer kills a lot of people because it usually isn't detected until late-stage. Getting a colonoscopy is one of the few good ways to know for sure.
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