Tuesday, October 28, 2008

The Truth About Colon Cancer That Only Few People Know

By Don Pedro

Colon cancer is as bad a curse as any you know. Imagine having troubles with the whole of your digestive system, gradually losing it to a tumor; that's the bad part. The worst part is that it continues to grow like all other cancers. All of a sudden, other parts of your body and insides are infected.

Remote as the appendix is, it is not safe from colorectal cancer. As the name implies it is a cancer that affects your colon and your rectum. It is as dangerous as any cancer you know, and it kills about as must as its senior, breast cancer.

Very rarely can you escape chemotherapy when you have to deal with colon cancer. Painfull as this is, it comes only after you have been operated upon to remove the tumor itself. At least, the chief source of your problems has to be gotten rid of first, which is a very necessary first step to surviving the condition.

Colon cancer is often addressed in a simple way that is also rather straightforward. What the process is not is easy. You first endure a colonoscopy by a colonoscope, and then a surgery. You top it up with chemotherapy if you are the lucky type. If you aren't, something else comes first.

A colorectal cancer is a cancer of your large intestine. This means that the cancer has infected all or parts of you rectum, your colon, and the lower part of your intestinal tract. The best way to have it diagnosed is to get a colonoscopy.

Of the myriad of cancer cases all over the world, lung cancer is probably the most well known, followed by breast cancer. Colon cancer comes in third, being also the second in reputation as a cause for cancer deaths.

There are a lot of techniques by which you can identify a large bowel cancer on time. Unfortunately, too many people neglect to use these processes at the times when the disease is just starting out in them. Soon enough, the disease spreads, and then they can no longer cure it.

A lot of people don't seem to know much about colon cancer, at least not as many people are there are that know about and dread breast cancer. However, the numbers of newly recorded cases of the condition continue to rise each year. So also does the number of deaths. - 15437

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