Colon Cancer Symptoms and Treatment - Colon cancer is the type of cancer that occurs in the colon of a person and its successful treatment depends on the stage in which it is detected.
The cancer that affects the colon in
the body is said to be colon cancer. The most dangerous part about
this disease is that people neglect the symptoms and mistake it for
disease like hemorrhoids, which leads to late detection and causes
severe problems. Here is a list of symptoms that might indicate that
a person is suffering from colon cancer:
If there is rectal bleeding or
there is blood in the stool of a person then they should immediately
get it checked out from a doctor and see to it they are fully tested
to see if they are suffering from colon cancer
Sometimes the bleeding might not
be visible it can be chronic and be evident in the form of anemia,
which might also suggest that a person is suffering from colon
cancer
Sometimes abdominal pain can also
be a cause of colon cancer if the tumour in the colon becomes large
enough and blocks the colon
Sudden loss of weight, decrease in
metabolism, nausea and some other factors along with the ones
mentioned above might also be considered symptoms of colon cancer
Severe rectal pain and sensation
of incomplete bowel movement are also considered two primary
symptoms of colon cancer
The treatment of colon cancer depends
upon the stage of the cancer and the amount of dosage the patient
needs. Here is a list of methods adopted by doctors to treat colon
cancer:
Primary treatment of this disease
includes surgically removing the part of a patients colon which has
been affected by the tumour. This is a part of the treatment and the
process is followed with high dosage medication to make sure that
the tumour is completely destroyed.
If the patient is in later stages
of cancer, it becomes mandatory for doctors to use chemotherapy to
decrease the size of the tumour with the help of radiation and then
try and completely eradicate the tumour with high dosage of
medicines.
Apart from these
there are a lot of other treatments being researched for, so that the
cancer can be cured as fast as possible.
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