Colon Cancer

Epidemiology

Colon cancer and rectum is the type of cancer digested system most often in finding. Colon cancer and rectum usually starts in the layer of intestine mucosa.

Most with this disease are found in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain, rarely found in India, Colombia, or Senegal. Existing 50 times more often in the United States when compared with Senegal. Type of third cancer most ordinary people who suffer from a disease by men and also women, and the third cause of death for the bearer of both gender. One hundred and seventy thousand United States is this disease and it is fatal to sixty thousand of them each year.

Risk factors

• high foods in fat content and low fiber content can cause disease the colon cancer.
• Smoking is also not encouragement..
• Excessive alcohol increase the risk of affect to colon cancer and rectum. (Annals of Internal Medicine, 2005).
• Descendants of the disease syndromes, such as descendants of polyphosis large intestine, also attributed as one of the causes of this disease.

Growth Cancer

• These tumors penetrate far into the layer of mucosa colon. In that short time it Metastasis to the liver, lungs, brain and bone.

Symptoms

• Stomachache, diarrhea and / or constipation.
• Tumors, which will lead to bloody will affect to unclean bloody red (if the tumor is near rectum) or black (for tumors near the stomach).
• The other Symptom is a swelling in the abdomen, pain, fever, weight decrease or less the taste of food.
• Surgery is needed immediately if applicable intestine with the stopple jaundice.

Diagnostic colon cancer

• Colonoscopy examination is the best way, but how to use radiology, sigmoidoscopy or use 64-bits jet MSCT also satisfactory.
• Or take biopsy indication Protein such as CEA, CA19-9, the CA 125.
• 'Hemocult' is ways that are often not used because of how exactly the chronicles of blood loss.

Cancer treatment of colon

• Surgery: surgery for tumor cancer
• Radiation: Using radiation after surgery. Chemotherapy is used to reduce the risk of retrial. Methods of radio-chemotherapy for certain cases. I used post-operatively.
• Chemotherapy is used to reduce the risk of retrial.
• Radio chemotherapy method for certain cases.

Treatment continuation

• Clinical examination: Make a check on the patients.
• Endoscope, especially colonoscopy.
• Exam indication tumors.

Prevention

• high-fiber foods.
• After 40 years of age, were recommended for inspection colonoscopy once every three years and the blood test indication Protein cancer.